The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-92 (Wesleyan Poetry) - Hardcover

Dickey, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819522023 ISBN 13: 9780819522023

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Features more than two hundred poems, including previously unpublished works, documenting the development of a major literary figure who has greatly influenced a younger generation of poets

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Review

"Dickey is no ruminator or meditator. Perception with him is not a static matter. It is characteristically, whatever his subject, a clash, a confrontation, something that might happen in a cyclotron; and the particles that are struck off are new and packed with primal energy, particles of order destroyed during the act of creation . . . What I am left with is an awed sense of the pure power of these words"-- Wallace Stegner.

Booklist"

The Nation"

One of the things we should mean when we call a poet good is that his work returns us to the world and not merely to the poet. We do not assimilate good poetry; we become included in its imagination. James Dickey is a good poet, very good. Michael Goldman, The Nation"

There is a physicality and a willfulness, a biblical sweep and grandness to Dickey s poetry whether he s writing about dust or combat, trees or animals, love or seasons . . . A definitive retrospective. Booklist"

"There is a physicality and a willfulness, a biblical sweep and grandness to Dickey's poetry whether he's writing about dust or combat, trees or animals, love or seasons . . . A definitive retrospective."-- "Booklist"

"One of the things we should mean when we call a poet 'good' is that his work returns us to the world and not merely to the poet. We do not assimilate good poetry; we become included in its imagination. James Dickey is a good poet, very good."--Michael Goldman "The Nation"

About the Author

JAMES DICKEY is Carolina Professor and Poet-in-Residence at University of South Carolina. His many honors include a Guggenheim, a National Book Award and a Melville Cane Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965), and the French Prix Medicis for his novel Deliverance (1970). His most recent book is a novel, To the White Sea (1993).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819522023
• ISBN 13: 9780819522023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448