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...James Dickey's notoriety is belied by his appearance. An Atlanta-born former football player, fighter pilot, and advertising writer, within the last ten years he has won prominence as one of the most provocative of American poets. But the large crowd that came to hear his Morris Gray Poetry Reading on October 25 may have been surprised to find itself faced with a solid, comfortable Southern businessman. This is what Dickey appears to be, except when his eyes glitter as he relishes the turns of his own conversation...
...give him away for being a poet. His exterior seems particularly unexotic if one has come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...
...Dickey's most recent poems that teeters on this brink is called "Falling." An airline stewardess sucked from an aircraft falls to her death in a Kansas cornfield. On the way down...
...publishing poet, I find that Dickey's real responses illuminate the courageous inner life as Lowell's deep conflicts...
...teacher, I find that Dickey's "profound sense of conjunction with the world" strikes the gut and mind of students, who take to Lowell's poetry as to a rainy...