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Poems, 1957-1967.

Dickey, James. (Author).

Summary:

Selections from his four published books, and more than a score of new poems.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0819530735
  • ISBN: 9780819530738
  • Physical Description: xv, 299 pages. ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1967]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
May Day sermon to the women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a woman preacher leaving the Baptist church -- Sleeping out at Easter -- The underground stream -- The string -- The vegetable king -- The enclosure -- The jewel -- The performance -- The wedding -- The other -- Trees and cattle -- Walking on water -- Awaiting the swimmer -- On the hill below the lighthouse -- Near Darien -- Into the stone -- The lifeguard -- Listening to foxhounds -- A dog sleeping on my feet -- The movement of fish -- The heaven of animals -- A birth -- Fog envelops the animals -- The summons -- In the tree house at night -- For the nightly ascent of the hunter Orion -- Over a forest clearing -- The owl king -- Between two prisoners -- Armor -- In the Lupanar at Pompeii -- Drowning with others -- Dover : believing in kings -- To his children in darkness -- A screened porch in the country -- Hunting civil war relics at Nimblewill creek -- The hospital window -- The magus -- Facing Africa -- Inside the river -- The salt marsh -- In the mountain tent -- The dusk of horses -- Fence wire -- At Darien bridge -- Chenille -- On the Coosawattee -- Winter Trout -- Springer mountain -- Cherrylog road -- The scarred girl -- Kudzu -- The beholders -- The poisoned man -- In the marble quarry -- A folk singer of the thirties -- The being -- The ice skin -- Bums, on waking -- Goodbye to serpents -- Approaching prayer -- The driver -- Horses and prisoners -- Drinking from a helmet -- The firebombing -- Buckdancer's choice -- Faces seen once -- The common grave -- Reincarnation (I) -- Them, crying -- The celebration -- The escape -- The shark's parlor -- Pursuit from under -- Fox blood -- Fathers and sons : the second sleep, the aura -- Sled burial, dream ceremony -- Gamecock -- The night pool -- The war wound -- Mangham -- Angina -- Dust -- The Fiend -- Slave Quarters -- Reincarnation (II) -- The sheep child -- Sun -- Power and Light -- The flash -- Adultery -- Hedge life -- Snakebite -- Bread -- Sustainment -- A letter -- The Head-aim -- Dark ones -- Encounter in the cage country -- For the last wolverine -- The bee -- Mary Sheffield -- Deer among cattle -- The leap -- Coming back to America -- The birthday dream -- False youth : two seasons -- Falling.
Subject: Poetry, Modern > 20th century.
Genre: Poetry.

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