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Baccalaureate address at the University of Virginia by James Dickey.

1945: un B-29 americano viene colpito dalla contraera mentre e volo su Tokyo. e il mitragliere Muldrow e costretto a buttarsi col pracadute sul territorio nemico. Ma il protagonisia di Oceano bianco non e un soldato qualunque: ha passato la sua giovinezza tra foreste e i ghiacci dell''Alaska. e sa come carsela negli ambienti piu ostili. Dopo aver approfittato de caos dei bonbardamenti per procurarsi i vestiti adatti, Muldrow inizia una marcia verso il Nord del Giappone, verso le neve dove sa di potere sopravvivere.

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.

The papers include correspondence, manuscripts of poems, prose, and plays as well as proofs for publications. Also includes scrapbooks, notebooks, pamphlets, ephemera related to readings, photographs, and a typescript of a dissertation on Eberhart. Additionally, personal documents including school records, family correspondence, personal planners, calendars, student papers, syllabi as well as audio, video, and film of readings, lectures and interviews are found in the papers. Notable correspondents include W. H. Auden, Robert Bly, Philip Booth, Hayden Carruth, Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Diane Di Prima, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, John Holmes, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, W.S. Merwin, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Jay Parini, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, José Villa, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Williams, and others. The papers document the professional and personal life of poet and college professor Richard Eberhart.