The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Dickey, James

ISBN 10: 0819522023 / ISBN 13: 9780819522023

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 1992

About this Item

Text is bright, clean and free of any extraneous markings. Signed and inscribed by Dickey on the front page. Jacket and cover have minor edge wear. First edition, first printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945?1992 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819522023
• ISBN 13: 9780819522023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

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Features more than two hundred poems, including previously unpublished works, documenting the development of a major literary figure who has greatly influenced a younger generation of poets

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"