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...Love Story, Segal (2 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles(1) 3. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (3) 4. Deliverance, Dickey (7) 5. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (5) 6. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow (4) 7. A Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel (6) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (8) 9. The House on the Strand, du Maurier (9) 10. Local Anesthetic, Grass
...Deliverance, Dickey...
...Dickey approaches teaching with a combination of energy and detachment. His creative-writing students are advised to tune into their recalcitrant unconsciousness, or the "celestial wireless" as Dickey calls it. He recently hammered away at his modern-poetry students for most of an hour about Emily Dickinson's obsession with death. When not one of them could see that the house with "the cornice but a mound" in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" was a grave, he remained undepressed. The class left bright-eyed and exalted by his performance...
...Dickey's poetic sensibility, he admits, was the main problem in writing Deliverance. "I wanted to write simple, imaginative prose that did not strain for metaphorical brilliance," he explains. "I'm tired of reading novels in which nothing happens. Books like that are really rehearsals for some imagined literary display. I spent time taking things out of my prose." His own book came hard. Separating words from rhythm, he says, was like "putting on a wooden overcoat." Dickey worked at it on and off for seven years. Though he has doubts about writing another, financially he can have...
...Deliverance, Dickey...