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Dickey, James

Dickey, James (Lafayette)

(1923–  ) poet, writer; born in Atlanta, Ga. He studied at Vanderbilt (B.A. 1949; M.A. 1950), worked in advertising, was consultant to the Library of Congress (1966–68), and taught at many institutions, including the University of South Carolina (1969). He is known for his metaphysical poetry, as in Buckdancer's Choice (1965), and his award-winning novel, Deliverance (1970).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
References in periodicals archive
Dickey, James. Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now.
The dance of deep ecology in James Dickey's "The Lyric Beasts"
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