James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. His first book, Into the Stone and Other Poems, was published in 1960. Drowning with Others was published in 1962. Dickey's popularity ...
THE common lament on our campuses is the dearth of “major poets,” and the critics are scuttling to find one. If they cannot find him, surely they can invent him: study someone until he turns out to be ...