Best Selling Books by James Dickey

"During the process of organizing and writing the lecture, I found the enterprise turning into a search in which, almost without my knowing it,I sought to clarify my own feelings about Pound''s work, and to ascertain and evaluate the aspects of it which might implement the poetry I would presumably write, as well as pay homage to Pound for his influence - shadowy but vast - on my earlier verse. What I feel about Pound''s example is given here, and I believe that my opinion has solidified to a degree that will make any further changes of attitude on my part unlikely if not impossible"--

The poems include Walking on water; The being; Awaiting the swimmer; Springer Mountain; The flash; Dust; The ice skin; False youth, two seasons (winter); The underground stream; Dark ones.

Criticisms collected from the "Times Book Review" and several American literary quarterlies.

The true key to unlocking the secret of the Bible, according to author E. James Dickey, is found in biography. Some people would approach the Bible from a doctrinal, sacramental, historical, and archaeological point of view. Valid as these ways of understanding this magnificent treasure known as the Bible are, any or all of these measures fall far short of encompassing the whole content of the Bible. The way to embrace the totality of scripture and unlock the mystery therein is through biography, according to the author. No other spiritual or religious documents in the world have this element to it. Instead, dictums, commandments, sayings, maxims and axioms dominate such writings. Valid as they are, the truly human element is missing. Moreover, the relationship with the one, true God and with one another is dictated by those wordsbe they inspired, revealed, or fashioned. So, any relationship tends to become subservient to the statements themselves. Thus, freedom is thwarted and throttled at its very roots. It is true that biography often is somewhat sketchy throughout the scriptures, but enough elements are there to portray a real picture of the people involved. To look at the Bible from the primary relationship with the one, true God of the whole universe and with live human beings is the key to the scriptures. When sincere, it will produce fruits beyond compare.

Pour tromper l''ennui de leur vie citadine, quatre trentenaires décident de s''offrir une virée en canoë sur une rivière vouée à disparaître sous un lac artificiel. Peu expérimentés mais enthousiasmés par le charismatique Lewis, ils se laissent emporter au cœur des paysages somptueux de Géorgie. Mais la nature sauvage est un cadre où la bestialité des hommes se réveille. Une mauvaise rencontre et l''expédition se transforme en cauchemar : le monde qu''ils ont pénétré n''est régi par aucune loi. Dès lors, une seule règle subsiste : survivre. Best-seller international, prix Médicis étranger immortalisé au cinéma, Délivrance est de ces découvertes littéraires brutales et inoubliables dont nul ne sort indemne.

Death, and the Day''s Light, the volume of poetry James Dickey was working on when he died, offers the writer''s final views on love and death, fathers and sons, and war and resurrection.

17 turbulente Geschichten – neue Storys von Stephen King und Joe Hill nebst im Deutschen Unveröffentlichtem von Richard Matheson, John Varley u.a., dazu Klassiker von Dan Simmons, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury ... Nichts ist Stephen King ein größerer Gräuel, als fliegen zu müssen. Zusammen mit Mitherausgeber Bev Vincent teilt er nun seine Flugangst mit seinen Lesern. Die Anthologie versammelt alles, was gründlich schiefgehen kann, wenn man sich auf 30.000 Fuß Höhe mit 500 Knoten in einem Metallgefährt (einem Sarg?) durch die Lüfte bewegt. Flugreisen verwandeln sich hier schnell in Albträume, auf die man nie im Leben gekommen wäre. Da überlegt man es sich lieber zweimal, ob der Weg zum Ziel nicht in einer letzten Reise mündet.

Watercolors by Hubert Shuptrine and text by James Dickey present the South as Jericho, "the first city of the Promised Land: the city that fell to Joshua."

Sergeant Muldrow is an American airman who is shot down over Tokyo during World War II. Using skills gained in his youth in his native Alaska, he proceeds to make his escape. A brutal and often poetic tale of survival in the course of which the airman kills a man for his clothes, eats a swan for meat and undergoes torture at the hands of the police.

The author reveals the paradise of the Southern mountains through the monologue of an old mountain man; colorful photographs display the beauty and wonder of this remote area

Two illustrated, printed posters, both signed by the author, copies of the poem, The Eagle''s Mile [1981, filed with oversize items, Pob-3]