unless you're a natural-born sourpuss - or maybe resent the notion that a celebrated poet could one day up and write a novel and produce a crackerjack - you'll suspend disbelief, you'll buy the story "If you like to read and talk and argue about modern poetry in general, you will find James Dickey's collection of brief reviews and essays a very satisfying and provoking volume." has an unevenness that seems inextricably bound up with the kind of generosity required to by-pass the limits of intellectual and academic audiences." That makes it one of the remarkable books of the decade." The book has a passionate quality, an intense clarity, a lensing of the totality of being into a kind of carefully separated madness establishes as one of the most important younger poets of our time. "Dickey often manages to make his work memorable by the sheer force of what he has to say." Still, this second collection of his poems again proves him one of our most serious, able and distinguished voices." "His greatest danger is a certain expectedness of diction. Audio Special: James Dickey reads from his poetry and 'Deliverance' at the 92nd St.McClatchy Reviews 'Crux' and 'The James Dickey Reader' (December 19, 1999) With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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