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...effort to initiate a fresh dialogue between the poet and his audience. What has emerged in the U.S. is a crop of poets who cannot be pigeonholed in schools or academies, whether they are writing in free verse or with a conscious debt to form. Among them, James Dickey and John Berryman have become the most prominent, while Robert Lowell continues to be the most profound force among the more formal American poets...
...have any business denying things in the realm of fact"), St. Augustine ("The soul is complete in every part of the body"), and Pasternak. It was almost as if the rude irreverence which characterizes books like Paul Carroll's anthology of The New American Poets, the things James Dickey says about "the distant and learnedly distasteful tone of Eliot or the music scholarliness of Pound" were being warded off for a while longer, if only to recall The Beautiful Changes (1947, Wilbur's first book...
...youth in Atlanta, Dickey's ef forts were mostly in outdoor sports and music. He still considers the north Georgia hills his "spiritual ground. My people are all hillbillies. I'm only second-generation city," he drawls. During World War II, he was a combat flier on some 100 missions in Black Widow night fighters over the Pacific. He later wrote about this experience in his poem, The Firebombing...
...napalm and gasoline of the war over, Dickey enrolled at Vanderbilt to study philosophy and English. After teaching English at Rice and the University of Florida, he became an advertising copywriter in New York, then in Atlanta. In August 1961, to devote himself to poetry, he quit his job and supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender...
...resisting the whirlwind of journalism," he says. "If I've finally achieved any distinction as a poet, then my primary aim is to explore the paths I've so laboriously come on. I've been looking forward for years just to sitting down and writing poems." Dickey has already proved that being a fine poet and a first-rate journalist are not mutually exclusive...