"Struggling for Wings": The Art of James Dickey

"Struggling for Wings" is a diverse collection of reviews, interviews, and essays on the controversial career of James Dickey, a writer whose work has engendered commentary ranging from high praise to scathing personal attack. Never before collected, the materials in this volume record America's critical response to Dickey, beginning in the early 1960s when he first began publishing poetry and continuing through the mid-1990s, with comprehensive overviews of Dickey's entire canon.

First sentence: In these compelling lines from The Eagle's Mile (1990), his most recent and complex book of poems, James Dickey confronts no generalized or abstract conception of "frustration."

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Editions

1

Pages

276

ISBN

9781570031656

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