- James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966.
- James Dickey (1923-1997), with his unique vision, often violent imagery, and eccentric style, created for himself a place as an important American poet in the last...
- Dickey: His Letters and Life 1970-1997, 2005The Complete Poems of James Dickey, 2013Death, and the Day's Light, 2015.
- Author James Dickey holding cheek-to-cheek with a ceramic mask of his face designed by Billy Dunlap, at home.
- He was born James Lafayette Dickey on the 2nd February 1923 in Atlanta,in the state of Georgia, the son of a lawyer.
- James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 - January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist, who served as U.S. Poet Laureate.
- James Dickey ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century.
- James Lafayette Dickey, a giant among mid-to-late twentieth-century Southern poets, provided a yes — a definitive sense of place and person.
- Image from my copy of his Collected Poems, altered by me. These days, James Dickey is remembered as the writer of the novel Deliverance.
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