Book description
For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation's most
important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Whole Motion
collects his poetic oeuvre into a single volume: 235 poems from his
first book, Into the Stone (1960), to The Eagle's Mile (1990), along
with previously uncollected poems and unpublished "apprentice"
works. "There is a physicality and a willfulness, a biblical
sweep and grandness to Dickey's poetry whether he's writing about dust
or combat, trees or animals, love or seasons . . . A definitive
retrospective,"--Booklist JAMES DICKEY is Carolina Professor and
Poet-in-Residence at University of South Carolina. His many honors
include a Guggenheim, a National Book Award and a Melville Cane Award
for Buckdancer's Choice (1965), and the French Prix Medicis for his
novel Deliverance (1970). His most recent book is a novel, To the White
Sea (1993).
