New Releases by James Dickey

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.

"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"--

A child hunts the animals of the world with a pop gun and the snare of his imagination.

The acclaimed poet''s reflections on fifty-three Old and New Testament passages are accompanied by Marvin Hayes'' distinctive etchings.

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."

Baccalaureate address at the University of Virginia by James Dickey.

Discusses Boretz''s film on Civil War battlefields in which he used one of Dickey''s poems. Dickey also compares Edwin Arlington Robinson and Robert Frost.

Classic poems from a famous American poet This volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his American generation. For this collection, James Dickey has selected from his four published books all those poems that reflect his truest interests and his growth as an artist. He has added more than a score of new poems—in effect, a new book in themselves—that have not previously been published in volume form. Specifically, Poems 1957-1967 contains 15 of the 24 poems that were included in his first book, Into the Stone (1960); 25 of the 36 that made up Drowning With Others (1962); 22 of the 24 in Helmets (1964); the entire 22 in the National Book Award winner Buckdancer''s Choice (1965); and, under the titles Sermon and Falling, the exciting new poems mentioned above. Seldom can the word "great" be used of the work of a contemporary in any art. But surely it applies to the poems of James Dickey.

Classic poems from a famous American poet