Poems, 1957-1967 / James Dickey.
| Author/creator | Dickey, James |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Collier Books, 1968, ©1967. |
| Description | xv, 299 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 lapanar 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 -- Kadzu -- 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 -- Sled burial, dream ceremony -- Gamecock -- The night pool -- The war wound -- Mangham -- Angina -- Dust -- The fiend -- Slave quarters -- Reincarnation (II) -- The sleep 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. |
| Local note | Autographed by James Dickey on title page. Paperback. Stuart Wright Book Collection #143.33. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Dickey, James. Poems, 1957-1967. New York : Collier Books, 1968, ©1967 |
| LCCN | 67015230 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | PS3554.I32 A6 1968 | ✔ Available | Request Material |