The Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all
331 poems published by one of America's most distinguished poets,
collected in one volume for the first time. Dickey's most-admired and
most-anthologized poems--such as "The Performance," "Cherrylog Road,"
"The Firebombing," "Falling," and "May Day Sermon"--along with his epic
poem The Zodiac are placed in chronological order of publication,
affording a poetic autobiography that reveals the intellectual
development and the constant experimentation of an iconic American
literary figure.
This collection includes 93 poems Dickey did not publish in The Whole
Motion (1992), 238 poems that he collected as an overview of his whole
career. The Complete Poems of James Dickey also includes an apparatus
listing publication data and textual variants for the poems, as well as
explanatory notes placing Dickey's poetry in biographical and historical
context. Edited with an introduction by Ward Briggs, this authoritative
and complete edition will be the definitive primary source for Dickey's
poetry.
This collection includes a foreword by poet Richard Howard, president of
the PEN American Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1969
collection, Untitled Subjects.
