James Lafayette Dickey ( born James Lafayette Dickey ; February 2, 1923 , Atlanta , Georgia , USA - January 19, 1997 , Columbia, South Carolina , USA) - American poet , writer .
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| Date of Birth | February 2, 1923 |
| Place of Birth | Atlanta ( Georgia , USA ) |
| Date of death | January 19, 1997 (73 years old) |
| Place of death | Columbia ( South Carolina , USA) |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | , , , |
| Genre | Poetry , novel , essay . |
| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | US National Book Award |
| Awards | [d] [d] [d] ( 1966 ) |
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Biography
James Dicky was born in Georgia. In 1942 he entered the Agricultural College of South Carolina . During the Second World War, he left college for the front, served in naval aviation , as a radar operator in a night fighter squadron .
After the war, he graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in English and philosophy, as well as astronomy. He taught at the University of Florida .
From 1950 to 1954, Dicky teaches at Rice University in Houston .
During the war in Korea , leaves the university for two years, serves in the US Air Force . After university, she has been working in an advertising agency for several years, collaborating with The Coca-Cola Company and Lay's Potato Chips .
In 1957, the first collection of poems “Stone” was published. Later on, his books of poems “Helmets” ( English Helmets , 1964) and “Song about a Wandering Musician” ( English Buckdancer's Choice: Poems , 1965) are published , for which Dicky was awarded the National Book Prize [1] .
In 1967, the volume of the collection of poems "Poems 1957-1967" ( English Poems 1957-67 ) is published. Dicky accepts the position of professor of English at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and is elected poetry consultant at the Library of Congress . Several of his collections of journalistic and literary-critical prose are published.
In 1970, James Dickey published The Deliverance, which became a bestseller and was made into a movie two years later. Dickie starred in the eponymous film in the episodic role of the Sheriff. The film received three Academy Award nominations .
The poet was invited to read his poem, The Strength of Fields, at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
Recent poetry books testify to the influence the Bible had on the poet.
James Savage died after a long illness on January 19, 1997.
Bibliography
- “Stone” (Into the Stone and Other Poems), 1960;
- “Drowning with all” Drowning with Others (1962);
- “Two Poems of Air” Two Poems of the Air (1964);
- “Helmets” Helmets (1964);
- “Song of a Wandering Musician” by Buckdancer's Choice: Poems (1965);
- "Poems 1957-1967" (Poems 1957-67), 1967;
- The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems (1968);
- The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970);
- Deliverance, novel, (Deliverance), 1970;
- "Exchange" Exchanges (1971);
- Jericho: The Sealed South Jericho: The South Beheld (1974);
- The Zodiac The Zodiac (1976);
- Veteran Birth: The Gadfly Poems 1947-49 (1978);
- Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish (1979);
- The Strength of Fields (1979);
- Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems (1981);
- The Early Motion (1981);
- Puella (1982);
- Värmland (1982);
- False Youth: Four Seasons (1983);
- “Some Time and Place” For a Time and Place (1983);
- Intervisions (1983);
- "Central Movement: Poems" The Central Motion: Poems 1968-79 (1983);
- Bronwen, The Traw, and the Shape-Shifter: A Poem in Four Parts (1986);
- Alnilam (1987);
- The Eagle's Mile (1990);
- The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1949-92 (1992);
- Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Bee;
- “The White Sea” To The White Sea (1993).
Filmography
- “Deliverance” (novel / script), 1972;
- “The Call of the Wild” (script) 1976.
Notes
Links
- American poetry .
- James Dickey
- The site of modern American poetry . (eng.)
- Academy of American Poets . (eng.)
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (eng.)