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James Dickey is the author of Helmets (1964), The Eye-beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy (1970), Intervisions (1983), Spinning the Crystal Ball (1967), The Water-bug's Mittens (1979).

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The Eye-beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead, and Mercy

Intervisions

Intervisions
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.

The Water-bug's Mittens

The Water-bug's Mittens
Originally delivered as the University of Idaho Pound Lecture in the Humanities, 1979.

The Suspect in Poetry

The Suspect in Poetry
Criticisms collected from the "Times Book Review" and several American literary quarterlies.

The Secret of the Bible

release date: Apr 13, 2012
The Secret of the Bible
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.

Liberación

release date: Mar 03, 2025
Liberación
Cuatro amigos, un viaje en canoa y un encuentro mortal. Un paisaje idílico que se transforma en un cementerio y en el que la presa se torna cazador implacable. Un thriller psicológico donde la amistad se pone a prueba y la vida se convierte en una lucha a muerte. Cuatro amigos emprenden un viaje en canoa por las atronadoras corrientes del río Cahulawassee, en el corazón de los remotos bosques de Georgia. Lewis, el cabecilla del grupo, campeón de tiro con arco, es un entusiasta de la vida agreste. Sin embargo, para el resto de sus compañeros el viaje es apenas una excusa para escapar de sus rutinas y una oportunidad, quizá la última, de contemplar el esplendoroso valle antes de que sea inundado y convertido en una presa. Pero la tranquila excursión en canoa se tiñe de sangre cuando se topan con unos lugareños que los atacan brutalmente. Es entonces cuando su apacible aventura se transforma en una pesadilla en la que tendrán que luchar por sus propias vidas, en un juego letal donde el hombre es cazador y presa a la vez, y el salvaje entorno del valle se torna en un cementerio de roca y aguas bravas para aquellos que carecen de la fuerza o la fortuna para sobrevivir. Un prodigioso tour de force narrativo en el que acción y suspense se mezclan de modo magistral. Una novela Ganadora del Prix Médicis étranger en 1971, adaptada a la gran pantalla por John Boorman, con Burt Reynolds y John Voigt como protagonistas. CRÍTICA «Una novela que hará que se te encojan los dedos de los pies... La canoa de Dickey cabalga hasta los límites de la tensión dramática.» —New York Times Book Review «Una pesadilla alucinante que avanza a pura potencia... Hay pocos escritores como Dickey y pocas novelas tan terroríficas como Liberación.» —The Washington Post «Una vez leída, esta novela no se olvidó.» —Newport Daily Press «Un libro honesto que golpea la mente del lector con el aguijón de una pelota de béisbol recién atrapada en la mano.» —The Nation «Un tour de force... Cómo actúa un hombre cuando le disparan una flecha, al escalar un acantilado o al zozobrar, la irónica psicología del miedo: cosas que se transmiten con una notable vivacidad.» —The New Republic

Délivrance

release date: Jul 20, 2017
Délivrance
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

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Death, and the Day's Light
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.

Flussfahrt

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Flug und Angst

release date: Jun 10, 2019
Flug und Angst
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.

Oceano bianco

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Deliverance

release date: Jul 01, 1991
Deliverance
Four suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river''s raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder

Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems

Jericho

Jericho
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."

The Deliverance

release date: Jan 01, 2018

To the White Sea

release date: Jan 01, 1996
To the White Sea
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.

Wayfarer

release date: Jan 01, 1988
Wayfarer
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

Odrešitev

release date: Jan 01, 1988

James Dickey Collection, 1964-2001

James Dickey Collection, 1964-2001
Two illustrated, printed posters, both signed by the author, copies of the poem, The Eagle''s Mile [1981, filed with oversize items, Pob-3]
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