The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945 1992
A War, Anthologies, Poetry book. And not caring, not at all, But only knowing that I was there, Drenched in sweat,...
For over three decades, James Dickey has been one of the nation's most important poets and a prominent man of letters. The Eagle's Mile, his most recent volume, was a triumphant success, a bold and innovative departure from his traditional verse. The New York Times declared, "Dickey continues to extend his vision as a major American poet, " while Fred Chappell, himself a Bollingen Prize winner, wrote, "If there were a literary prize for Poetry That Has Shown Real Moxie, it ought to go to The Eagle's Mile." Now, The Whole Motion collects Dickey's oeuvre into a single volume: 235 poems, ranging from his first book, Into the Stone, through...
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And not caring, not at all, But only knowing that I was there, Drenched in sweat, my shirt open down to my balls, Nineteen years old, commanding the beach Where life and death had striven, but safe At the top of the heap, in the dark Where no lights came through From the water, and nothing yet struck. James Dickey, The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992 // With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have gone. James Dickey, The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992 // I came, to meet my holy masters in the Word James Dickey, The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992 //
Have read much of this book before, in the early and mid-70s, as the individual volumes were being published; Wesleyan has now published a number of these as ebooks, including this one, and I'm looking forward to catching up on the poems I'd missed. If memory serves, one of the books collected here (BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE) took a National... poets Poets and readers of great poetry.
