Most Popular Books by James Dickey

Although the notebooks identify the influence of writers such as George Barker, Hart Crane, and Dylan Thomas, they primarily present a man endeavoring to chart his own artistic course or destination.

James Dickey: The Selected Poems is the first book to collect James Dickey''s very best poems. Like many visionary poets of the ecstatic imagination, Dickey experimented in a wide variety of literary styles. This volume brings together the finest work from each of the periods in Dickey''s extremely controversial career. For over three decades, until his death in 1997, Dickey was one of the nation''s most important poets; these are the poems that brought him a popular readership and critical acclaim.

"The second volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. This volume chronicles Dickey''s career from the publication of Deliverance through his poetic experimentation in The Eye Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy and Puella. Includes correspondence with Saul Bellow, Arthur Schlesinger, and Robert Penn Warren"--Provided by publisher.

“You''re hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper''s Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance. Praise for Deliverance “Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press “A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic “Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review “A fine and honest book that hits the reader''s mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation “[James Dickey''s] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time “A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times "A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey''s canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker

For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation''s most important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Whole Motion collects his poetic oeuvre into a single volume: 235 poems from his first book, Into the Stone (1960), to The Eagle''s Mile (1990), along with previously uncollected poems and unpublished "apprentice" works.

Over 400 letters that are as entertaining as they are erudite, revealing the fierce and complicated intellect of one of the most popular American poets and novelists of the 20th century. Written between 1943 and Dickey''s death in 1997, most of them deal with literature, particularly poetry; the recipients include Robert Penn Warren, Ezra Pound, William Styron, Richard Wilbur, Stanley Burnshaw, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, John Berryman, Andrew Lytle, Denise Levertov, Peter Viereck, Philip Booth, Anne Sexton. Of particular interest are the apprenticeship letters in which the young poet develops contacts and shapes a career; and the late period in which the ailing man of letters confronts his guilt and debilitation as well as various family tragedies.

Direct and dramatic poems point out the contrasts and agonied of this amoral age.

A portrait of blind Frank Cahill''s encounter with the truth about the son he has never met, and about himself.

Poems that marked a new direction for a master poet

The title poem was composed for President Carter''s 1976 inauguration ceremony. Thirty other poems are included.

Published to coincide with his son Christopher Dickey''s memoir, "Summer of Deliverance, " this collection of poems and prose distill''s James Dickey''s tremendous talent and influence, and sheds light on his remarkable career.

This collection includes a foreword by poet Richard Howard, president of the PEN American Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1969 collection, Untitled Subjects.

Based on the poem The Zodiac by H. Marsman.

Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, and Robert Bridges.

By the author of the bestselling Deliverance, this spellbinding novel of survival confirmed the late James Dickey as the successor to Ernest Hemingway John Updike described legendary Southern poet and novelist James Dickey as ''the high-flyer of American poets''. This was literally true: he flew over 100 missions in WWII, developing his reputation as a tough-guy, and his dark poetic insights into the human instinct to survive. Of his three novels, To the White Sea is the truest to his experience. An American airforce gunner is blasted from the sky over Tokyo in the 1945 firestorms which seem end civilization. And he is glad of it. Left with only his army survival kit, his own knife and his upbringing as a hunter in the lower Arctic, the airman makes his way through the burning city under cover of chaos, and across the alien country to the northern snows, where he can live alone, on his instincts. This is a haunting and starkly beautiful book of fire and ice, blood and snow, stripping back layers of humanity to reveal man as both hunter and hunted, an unequivocal part of nature.