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Whole Motion Collected Poems, 1945-1992

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ISBN-10: 0819512184

ISBN-13: 9780819512185

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Dickey

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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from his first book, Into the Stone (1960), to The Eagle's Mile (1990), along with previously uncollected poems and unpublished "apprentice" works.
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 494
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

James Lafayette Dickey, an American poet and novelist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923. He is perhaps best known for Deliverance, his novel about four suburban men struggling to survive a canoe trip gone awry, which was made into a popular movie of the same title, starring Burt Reynolds. Dickey also published several volumes of poetry that are marked by his portrayal of a world in conflict. His collected poems (1942-1992) were published under the title The Whole Motion in 1992. After serving as a pilot during World War II, Dickey earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. He taught at several universities and worked as poetry consultant to the Library of…    

Summons
The Place of the Skull
The Baggage King
Patience: In the Mill
The Liberator Explodes
The Place of the Skull
Obstructions
The Confrontation of the Hero
The Courtship
Peacetime: Seeking the Chosen
A Morning
Drifting
Adam in Winter
Lazarus to the Assembled
Paestum
Via Appia
Wall and Cloud
The Rafters
The Sprinter at Forty
Walking the Fire Line
Seeking the Chosen
The Angel of the Maze
Blowgun and Rattlesnake
At the Home for Unwed Mothers
Reading Genesis to a Blind Child
Homages
Walter Armistead
For Richard Wilbur
For Robert Bhain Campbell
Into the Stone
Sleeping Out at Easter
The Underground Stream
The String
The Vegetable King
The Enclosure
The Jewel
The Performance
The Wedding
The Other
Trees and Cattle
Walking on Water
Awaiting the Swimmer
On the Hill Below the Lighthouse
Near Darien
Into the Stone
Drowning with Others
The Lifeguard
Listening to Foxhounds
A Dog Sleeping on My Feet
The Movement of Fish
The Heaven of Animals
A Birth
Fog Envelops the Animals
The Summons
In the Tree House at Night
For the Nightly Ascent of the Hunter Orion Over a Forest Clearing
The Rib
The Owl King
Between Two Prisoners
Armor
In the Lupanar at Pompeii
Drowning with Others
A View of Fujiyama after the War
The Island
Dover: Believing in Kings
To His Children in Darkness
A Screened Porch in the Country
The Dream Flood
The Scratch
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
The Twin Falls
The Hospital Window
The Magus
Antipolis
The Change
Autumn
Snow on a Southern State
To Landrum Guy, Beginning to Write at Sixty
Facing Africa
Inside the River
The Salt Marsh
In the Mountain Tent
Helmets
The Dusk of Horses
Fence Wire
At Darien Bridge
Chenille
On the Coosawattee
Winter Trout
Springer Mountain
Cherrylog Road
The Scarred Girl
Kudzu
The Beholders
The Poisoned Man
In the Marble Quarry
A Folk Singer of the Thirties
The Being
Breath
The Ice Skin
Bums, On Waking
Goodbye to Serpents
In the Child's Night
Approaching Prayer
The Driver
Horses and Prisoners
Drinking from a Helmet
Buckdancer's Choice
The Firebombing
Buckdancer's Choice
Faces Seen Once
The Common Grave
Reincarnation
Them, Crying
The Celebration
The Escape
The Shark's Parlor
Pursuit from Under
Fox Blood
Fathers and Sons
The Second Sleep
The Aura
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony
Gamecock
The Night Pool
The War Wound
Mangham
Angina
Dust
The Fiend
Slave Quarters
Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems
Falling
Falling
The Sheep Child and Other Poems
The Sheep Child
Reincarnation (II)
Sun
Power and Light
The Flash
Adultery
Hedge Life
Snakebite
Bread
Sustainment
A Letter
The Head-Aim
Dark Ones
Encounter in the Cage Country
For the Last Wolverine
The Bee
Mary Sheffield
Deer Among Cattle
The Leap
Coming Back to America
The Birthday Dream
False Youth: Two Seasons
May Day Sermon
May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church
The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
Diabetes
Messages
Mercy
Two Poems of Going Home
The Place
Apollo
The Cancer Match
Venom
Blood
In the Pocket
Knock
Victory
The Lord in the Air
Pine
Madness
The Eye-Beaters
Turning Away
The Zodiac
The Zodiac
The Strength of Fields
Root-light, or the Lawyer's Daughter
The Strength of Fields
Two Poems of the Military
Haunting the Maneuvers
Drums Where I Live
The Voyage of the Needle
The Rain Guitar
Remnant Water
Two Poems of Flight-Sleep
Camden Town
Reunioning Dialogue
For the Death of Lombardi
False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age
For the Running of the New York City Marathon
Exchanges
Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish
Purgation
The Ax-God: Sea Pursuit
Nameless
Math
Judas
Small Song
Undersea Fragment in Colons
Mexican Valley
Low Voice, Out Loud
Poem
When
A Saying of Farewell
Three Poems with Yevtushenko
I Dreamed I Already Loved You
Assignation
Doing the Twist on Nails
Six from Puella
Veer-Voices: Two Sisters Under Crows
Springhouse, Menses, Held Apple, House and Beyond
Deborah as Scion
With Rose, at Cemetery
In Lace and Whalebone
Doorstep, Lightning, Waif-Dreaming
From Time
Tapestry and Sail
The Eagle's Mile
Eagles
Gila Bend
Circuit
Night Bird
Daybreak
Two Women
Immortals
Earth
Air
Sea
To the Butterflies
The One
The Three
The Six
Weeds
Spring-Shock
The Eagle's Mile
Daughter
The Olympian
The Little More
For a Time and Place
Vessels
Sleepers
Meadow Bridge
Tomb Stone
To Be Done in Winter
Moon Flock
Snow Thickets
Expanses
Double-tongue: Collaborations and Rewrites
Lakes of Varmland
Form
Heads
Farmers
Craters
Attempted Departure
Poem
Purgation
Basics
Level
Simplex
Word
Acknowledgments