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Such work is no guarantee of a renaissance. Poets and readers may continue to drift apart; the art may yet degenerate totally into self-therapy. Fame is now reserved for poets who do something else- like writing bestselling novels (Erica Jong, James Dickey). There is no serious living writer whom the reading public gets by heart the way it once learned Frost and Auden. That echo in the brain now comes from rock lyrics and TV jingles. But set against all the reasons for pessimism are the voices, this spring, of these five poets. They show that it is still...
...that The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...
...kept cursing me and said he was going to whip my ass," asserted South Carolina Patrolman J.R. Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars...
...many people engaged in modern warfare, there is no guilt because guilt depends ultimately on contemplating the destruction that one is responsible for. So much destruction in modern warfare takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it." James Dickey...
...mortgages, a dismal sex life and fallen arches. This sad creature takes the holiday of his dreams, literally, combining hunting and fishing with other manly pursuits, e.g., rape, torture, kidnap and/or murder. Optional extras are sexual deviation, castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman to death for sport. (Says the jacket blurb, a searing portrait "of America in the seventies...