Drowning with Others: Poems
- ISBN-10
- 0819520144
- ISBN-13
- 9780819520142
- Category
- American poetry
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1962
- Publisher
- Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan U. P
- Author
- James Dickey
Description
The world of James Dickey is founded in great and basic realities - the human ties of family and history, the world of nonhuman nature, the inhuman world of war. He sees these things, on their surfaces, as all men see them. But to that general view he adds the special quality of dream, of a constant play back and forth between what is easily evident and the half-glimpsed revelation that lies masked beneath it. Whether it is a hound running foxes at night, or the harlots of Pompeii fixed in crude paint on the walls of their chambers, or the memory of dead kings brooding over the cliffs of Dover, all that he senses is given a fresh interpretation and a special meaning that are at once deeply private and broadly universal. To read Mr. Dickey's poems is a rewarding experience indeed. --Wesleyan University Press.
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