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==References== {{reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="NYT_Garner_2010">{{cite news | last1 = Garner | first1 = Dwight | author1-link = Dwight Garner | date = 2010-08-24 | title = 'Deliverance': A Dark Heart Still Beating | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/books/25dickey.html | url-status = live | department = Section C | work = [[The New York Times]] | language = en-us | edition = New York | page = 1 | eissn = 1553-8095 | issn = 0362-4331 | lccn = sn00061556 | oclc = 1645522 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220114131525/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/books/25dickey.html| archive-date = 2022-01-14 | access-date = 2022-01-31 | url-access = limited | quote = | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="LATimes_Obit_1997">{{cite news | last1 = Oliver | first1 = Myrna | date = 1997-01-21 | title = James Dickey; Prolific Poet, Author of 'Deliverance' | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-21-me-20689-story.html | url-status = live | department = | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | language = en-us | eissn = 2165-1736 | issn = 0458-3035 | lccn = 2011267049 | oclc = 3638237 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308132749/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-21-me-20689-story.html | archive-date = 2021-03-08 | access-date = 2022-01-31 | url-access = limited | quote = During World War II, Dickey flew more than 100 combat missions in the Pacific. He later reenlisted to fly in the Korean War. | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="NYT_Krebs_1997">{{cite news | last1 = Krebs | first1 = Albin | date = 1997-01-21 | title = James Dickey, Two-Fisted Poet and the Author of 'Deliverance,' Is Dead at 73 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/21/books/james-dickey-two-fisted-poet-and-the-author-of-deliverance-is-dead-at-73.html | url-status = live | department = Section D | work = [[The New York Times]] | language = en-us | edition = National | page = 22 | eissn = 1553-8095 | issn = 0362-4331 | lccn = sn00061556 | oclc = 1645522 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220114131525/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/books/25dickey.html| archive-date = 2022-01-14 | access-date = 2022-01-31 | url-access = limited | quote = Mr. Dickey's first wife, Maxine, died in 1976, and two months later he married Deborah Dodson, who was one of his students. He is survived by his wife; two sons, Kevin and Christopher, from his first marriage, and a daughter, Bronwen Elaine. | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="Dickey_2005_P61">{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author-mask1 = 1 | editor-last1 = Van Ness | editor-first1 = Gordon | date = 2005-05-30 | title = The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997 | url = https://archive.org/details/onevoiceofjamesd00dick/ | url-status = | url-access = registration | language = en-us | volume = 1 | publisher = [[University of Missouri Press]] | isbn = 978-0-82-621572-7 | lccn = 2005002500 | oclc = 57577371 | ol = OL8166470M | quote = Dickey's entrance into World War II immersed him in that element which would transfix his imagination. He was a P-61 navigator, part of the 418th Night Fighter Squadron stationed in the Philippine Islands, then in the process of being turned from a defensive unit into a squadron whose sorties would be primarily offensive, flying intruder missions to bomb and strafe | quote-page = 2 | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name="LoC_Laureate">{{cite web | url = https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poets-laureate/item/n79043450/james-dickey/ | title = James Dickey {{!}} U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1966-1968 | date = n.d. | department = [[United States Poet Laureate]] | website = [[Library of Congress]] | language = en-us | access-date = 2022-02-01 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210419195143/https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poets-laureate/item/n79043450/james-dickey/ | archive-date = 2021-04-19 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="Strength_Fields">{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James L. | author-mask1 = 1 | date = 1992-03-15 | chapter = The Strength of Fields | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/wholemotioncolle00dick/page/375 | chapter-url-access = registration | title = The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945โ1992 | url = https://archive.org/details/wholemotioncolle00dick | url-status = | url-access = registration | series = Wesleyan Poetry | language = en-us | publisher = [[Wesleyan University Press]] | pages = 378{{en dash}}379 | isbn = 978-0-81-952202-3 | lccn = 91050811 | oclc = 767498572 | ol = OL1566756M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="Hart_2000">{{cite book | last1 = Hart | first1 = Henry | author1-link = Henry Hart (author) | date = 2000-04-01 | title = James Dickey: The World as a Lie | url = https://archive.org/details/jamesdickeyworld00hart | url-access = registration | language = en | edition = First | publisher = [[Picador (imprint)|Picador USA]] | isbn = 978-0-31-220320-7 | lccn = 99054788 | oclc = 247859178 | ol = OL50392M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name="Nadeau_2020">{{cite news | last1 = Nadeau | first1 = Barbie Latza | date = 2020-07-16 | title = Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris | url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/legendary-foreign-correspondent-chris-dickey-dies-in-paris | url-status = live | department = Europe | work = [[The Daily Beast]] | language = en | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220118144420/https://www.thedailybeast.com/legendary-foreign-correspondent-chris-dickey-dies-in-paris | archive-date = 2022-01-18 | access-date = 2022-02-01 | quote = We talked at length about what it was like to be the poet and novelist James Dickey's son and about the summer he was on the film set with Burt Reynolds when they filmed Deliverance, which his father wrote. He had just written his memoir Summer of Deliverance and the stories were raw, and he was honest about the pain of his fatherโs genius and his mother's demons. | df = dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name="BronwenDickey_PitBull_2016">{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = Bronwen | author1-link = Bronwen Dickey| date = 2016-05-10 | title = Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon | url = | url-status = | url-access = | language = en | edition = Illustrated | publisher = [[Vintage Books]] | isbn = 978-0-30-796176-1 | lccn = 2017385667 | oclc = 991422085 | ol = 27405899M | df = dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name="Davison_1998">{{cite magazine | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/08/the-burden-of-james-dickey/377173/ | url-access = limited | title = The Burden of James Dickey | first1 = Peter | last1 = Davison | author1-link = Peter Davison (poet) | date = 1998-08-01 | magazine = [[The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly]] | volume = 282 | issue = 2 | eissn = 2151-9463 | issn = 1072-7825 | lccn = 93642583 | oclc = 1098736991 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220121170808/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/08/the-burden-of-james-dickey/377173/ | archive-date = 2022-01-21 | quote = Christopher Dickey watched his father and his mother sink into deep alcoholism, watched the enormous talents of the poet dissipate, watched his mother die of complications from cirrhosis and his father marry, in haste, one of his young students, who later became addicted to narcotics. | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="Trueheart_1987">{{cite news | last1 = Trueheart | first1 = Charles | author-link1 = Charles Trueheart | date = 1987-05-24 | title = James Dickey's Celestial Navigations | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/05/24/james-dickeys-celestial-navigations/6dbc69e8-1e01-418d-b7e5-c7bff958b36a/ | url-status = | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | language = en-us | issn = 0190-8286 | lccn = sn79002172 | oclc = 2269358 | archive-url = | archive-date = | access-date = 2022-02-01 | url-access = limited | quote = In what might be called Dickey's second life, he's the husband of a 35-year-old former student, Deborah Dodson Dickey, called Debba, who is nearly as tall as he, and he is 6 feet 3. He married her in 1976, two months and two days after the death of his first wife. They have a little girl named Bronwen, who is 6. | df = dmy-all }}</ref> <ref name="Currey_2013">{{cite magazine | last1 = Currey | first1 = Mason | title = Is the Key to Becoming a Great Writer Having a Day Job? | magazine = [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] | date = 2013-05-02 | url = https://slate.com/culture/2013/05/is-the-key-to-becoming-a-great-writer-having-a-day-job.html | access-date = 2022-01-31 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210616093322/https://slate.com/culture/2013/05/is-the-key-to-becoming-a-great-writer-having-a-day-job.html | archive-date = 2021-06-16 | quote = James Dickey attempted a similar balancing act between writing and advertising, only he flagrantly deceived his bosses in order to work on his poetry in the office (and eventually got fired for his obvious disregard for his advertising duties). | eissn = 1091-2339 | issn = 1090-6584 | oclc = 1010591826 | df = dmy-all}}</ref> <ref name="MoonGround_1969">{{YouTube|id=7UNzoEeYhJI|title=James Dickey reads "The Moon Ground," 1969}}</ref> }}
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