James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.
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“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with hearts
blood
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themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
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“As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.”
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“all the fine
Points of diving feet together toes pointed hands shaped right
To insert her into water like a needle”
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