The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Dickey, James

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ISBN 10: 0819522023 ISBN 13: 9780819522023

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 1992

Language: English

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Title: The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945?1992 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0819522023
ISBN 13: 9780819522023
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Features more than two hundred poems, including previously unpublished works, documenting the development of a major literary figure who has greatly influenced a younger generation of poets

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This weighty volume offers an impressive testimonial to one of our most complex and prolific poets. Where others condense, Dickey enlarges. His long, limber stanzas have a rhetorical eloquence that seems characteristically Southern, and his sensibility reflects the influence of a rural culture whose relationship to nature is unsentimental and immediate. Some of the most haunting poems discuss flying and falling, as in the verse describing a stewardess swept through the emergency door of an airplane. Dickey subordinates the horror of the incident to a transcendent detachment as the flight attendant's clothes "come down all over Kansas into bushes on the dewy sixth green/ of a golf course one shoe her girdle coming down fantastically/ on a clothesline, where it belongs her blouse on a lightning rod." The publisher could have aided the reader by providing original publication dates as well as a title index, but this is a major collection by an important, prize-winning author. Strongly recommended for all collections.
- Christine Stenstrom, Shea & Gould Law Lib. , New York
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