"Widely known as the winner of the 1966 National Book Award and author of the best-selling novel "Deliverance", James Dickey devoted himself as much to the critique of the modern literary tradition as to his participation in it. A writer enthralled by teaching, he lectured at several major universities before settling at the University of South Carolina for nearly three decades as poet-in-residence. After his death in 1997, a transcript ..."
"Nicholas Samaras's Hands of the Saddlemaker, the winning volume in the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 710 entries in this annual competition. The broad theme of Samaras's poems is the connection between eternal things and the passing world, between our sense of exile and our sense of commonality. Equilibrium between these worlds is achieved only through human feeling, through language. Samaras ex ..."
""The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe" stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date. Collected by Francis E. Skipp, these fifty-eight stories span the breadth of Thomas Wolfe's career, from hte uninhibited young writer meticulously describing the enchanting birth of springtime in "The Train and the City" to his mature, sober account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger". Thirty-five of ..."
"In 1996, as James Dickey struggled with his impending death and endeavored to overcome it-an effort that had always engaged his imagination- he re-established his priorities. Recognizing that he would die from suffocation brought on by fibrosis of the lungs, he attempted to wring two long poems, "Show Us the Sea" and "For Jules Bacon," from his earlier works and from his old self, not the drunken genius but the football player and weigh ..."
Intervisions Poems and Photographs. Foreword by Betty Adcock by JamesDickey Hardcover, Published 1969 by Visualternatives ISBN-13: 978-0-9611882-0-7, ISBN: 0-9611882-0-0
"The Fellows themselves contributed funds for an award in nonfiction and for the
Fellowship's New Writing Award. After two terms of two years as chancellor,
Cleanth Brooks was followed, in turn, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., George Garrett,
Doris Betts, and Walter Sullivan. Ellen Douglas is now vice chancellor. The full
membership of the Fellowship now included James Applewhite, Richard Bausch,
Madison Smartt Bell, Wendell Berry, Doris Be ..."
"This classic narrative of travels through America's southern wilderness was first published in 1791 by botanist William Bartram. From an Indian village to an orange grove, from the Mississippi to the Florida coast, this exquisite travel diary--enhanced with Bartram's own line drawings--brings to life the raw beauty of the American South as it was over 200 years ago."
"The Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all 331 poems published by one of America's most distinguished poets, collected in one volume for the first time. Dickey's most-admired and most-anthologised poems--such as ""The Performance,"" ""Cherrylog Road,"" ""The Firebombing,"" ""Falling,"" and ""May Day Sermon""--along with his epic poem The Zodiac are placed in chronological order of publication, affording a poet ..."
Deliverance by JamesDickey 338 Pages, Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0-461-41076-1, ISBN: 0-461-41076-1
"While the town searches above ground, 50 feet below Lucy runs for her life from two decidedly unfriendly robots. Meanwhile, Rover teaches Mouse and Jorge about Moses and the burning bush."
SORTIES by JamesDickey Hardcover, Published by Doubleday & Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-199-27220-1, ISBN: 1-199-27220-5
Deliverance by JamesDickey Published by Bantam Classic & Loveswept (Mm) ISBN-13: 978-1-199-01048-3, ISBN: 1-199-01048-0