Editing James Dickey

{{short description|American poet and novelist (1923-1997)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = James Dickey
| image            = James Dickey (cropped).jpg
| birth_name       = James Lafayette Dickey
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1923|2|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Atlanta, Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1997|1|19|1923|2|2|mf=y}}{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}}
| death_place      = [[Columbia, South Carolina]], U.S.{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}}
| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* novelist
* critic
* lecturer}}
| period           = [[Contemporary literature]]
| education        = [[Clemson University]]<br>[[Vanderbilt University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]])
| notableworks     = {{flatlist|
*''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]''{{r|NYT_Garner_2010}}
*''[[Buckdancer's Choice]]''
*''Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems''
*''To the White Sea''}}
| spouses          = {{ubl|{{marriage |Maxine Syerson |1948-11-04|1976-10-28|end=d.}}{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}}|{{marriage |Deborah Dodson |1976-12-30}}{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}}}}
| children         = 3; including [[Christopher Dickey|Christopher]]{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}} and [[Bronwen Dickey|Bronwen]]{{r|NYT_Krebs_1997|LATimes_Obit_1997}}
| awards           = {{flatlist|
* [[National Book Award for Poetry]]
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]
* [[United States Poet Laureate|United States Poet Laureate (1966–1968)]]
* [[Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences|Order of the South]]}}
| signature        = JamesDickeySig.png
| module           = {{Infobox military person
| embed=yes
| allegiance          = {{flagu|United States}}
| branch              = {{tree list}}
* {{army|United States}}
** [[File:US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg|20px]] [[United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]]
* {{air force|United States}}
{{tree list/end}}
| serviceyears        = {{ubl|{{start date|1943}}–{{end date|1946}} (Army)|{{start date|1952}}–{{end date|1954}} (Air Force)}}
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*[[File:Fifth Air Force - Emblem.png|20px]] [[Fifth Air Force]]
**[[File:418th Night Fighter Squadron - Emblem.jpg|20px]] [[418th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron|418th Night Fighter Squadron]]{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}
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| battles             = {{tree list}}
* [[Military history of the United States during World War II|World War II]]
** [[Pacific War]]{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}
*** [[New Guinea campaign]]{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}{{rp|p=303}}
*** [[Philippines campaign (1944–1945)|Philippines campaign]]{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}{{rp|p=183}}
*** [[Borneo campaign]]{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}{{rp|p=317}}
* [[Korean War]]{{r|LATimes_Obit_1997}}
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| awards           = [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]] (5){{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}}}
}}
'''James Lafayette Dickey''' (February 2, 1923  {{en dash}} January 19, 1997) was an American poet, novelist, critic, and lecturer.{{r|NYT_Garner_2010}} He was appointed the 18th [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|United States Poet Laureate]] in 1966.{{r|LoC_Laureate}} His other accolades included the [[National Book Award for Poetry]] and a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].

Although acclaimed as a poet, Dickey is most widely known for his debut novel ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]'' (1970), which he adapted into the [[Deliverance|acclaimed 1972 film of the same name]]. He was previously a decorated veteran of the [[Second World War]] and the [[Korean War]], as a pilot in the [[United States Air Force]]’s [[418th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron|418th Night Fighter Squadron]].{{r|Dickey_2005_P61}}

==Early years==
Dickey was born to lawyer Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], where he attended [[North Fulton High School (Georgia)|North Fulton High School]] in Atlanta's [[Buckhead]] neighborhood.{{r|LATimes_Obit_1997}} After graduation from North Fulton High in 1941, Dickey completed a postgraduate year at [[Darlington School]] in Rome, Georgia. Dickey asked to be dismissed from the Darlington rolls in a 1941 letter to the principal, deeming the school the most "disgusting combination of cant, hypocrisy, cruelty, class privilege and inanity I have ever since encountered at any human institution."{{r|Hart_2000|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jamesdickeyworld00hart/page/47/ 47{{en dash}}51]|quote= I was there one year, and a more disgusting combination of cant, hypocrisy, cruelty, class privilege and inanity I have never since encountered at any human institution. The school is such an insipid place that it really shouldn't call forth reactions as strong as the above, but when the functionaries of a place whose memory I so thoroughly detest come to me, quite literally, hat in hand, asking me for money to help ''support'' such a bastion of snobbery and privilege, such emotions do arise, perhaps unfortunately but quite authentically.}} In 1942, he enrolled at [[Clemson University|Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina]] and played on the football team as a tailback. After one semester, he left school to enlist in the military. During [[World War II]], Dickey served with the [[United States Army Air Forces|U.S. Army Air Forces]], where he flew thirty-eight missions in the Pacific{{nbsp}}Theater as a [[Northrop P-61 Black Widow|P-61 Black Widow]] radar operator with the [[418th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron|418th Night Fighter Squadron]], an experience that influenced his work, and for which he was awarded five [[Bronze star|Bronze Stars]].{{r|Dickey_2005_P61|page=[https://archive.org/details/onevoiceofjamesd00dick/page/2/mode/1up 2]}} He later served in the [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] during the [[Korean War]]. Between the wars, he attended [[Vanderbilt University]], where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]'' with a degree in English and philosophy (as well as minoring in astronomy) in 1949. He also received an M.A. in English from Vanderbilt in 1950.

==Career==
Dickey taught as an instructor of English at [[Rice University]] (then Rice Institute) in [[Houston, Texas]] in 1950 and following his second Air Force stint, from 1952 to 1954, Dickey returned to academic teaching. Dickey then quit his teaching job at the [[University of Florida]] in the spring of 1956 after a group of the American Pen's Women's Society protested his reading of the poem called ''The Father's Body''; he quit rather than apologize. Some critics believe that he manipulated this incident to his advantage. He became a successful copy writer for advertising agencies selling [[Coca-Cola]] and [[Lay's]] potato chips while in his free time writing some of his best poetry. He once said he embarked on his advertising career in order to "make some bucks." Dickey also said "I was selling my soul to the devil all day... and trying to buy it back at night." He was ultimately fired for shirking his work responsibilities.{{r|Currey_2013}}

His first book, ''Into the Stone and Other Poems'', was published in 1960. ''Drowning with Others'' was published in 1962, which led to a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (Norton Anthology, The Literature of the American South). ''[[Buckdancer's Choice]]'' (1965) earned him a [[National Book Award for Poetry]].<ref name=nba1966>{{cite web | url = https://www.nationalbook.org/books/buckdancers-choice-poems/ | title = Buckdancer's Choice: Poems {{!}} Winner, National Book Awards 1966 for Poetry | date = 1966 | website = [[National Book Foundation]] | access-date = 2022-01-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211020155550/https://www.nationalbook.org/books/buckdancers-choice-poems/ | archive-date = 2021-10-20 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
Among his better-known poems are "The Performance", "[[Cherrylog Road]]", "The Firebombing", "May Day Sermon", "Falling", and "For The Last Wolverine".

He published his first volume of collected poems, ''Poems 1957-1967'' in 1967 after being named a poetry consultant for the [[Library of Congress]]. This publication represents Dickey's best-known poetry. After serving as a visiting lecturer at several institutions from 1963 to 1968 (including [[Reed College]], [[California State University, Northridge]], the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]], [[Washington University in St. Louis]] and the [[Georgia Institute of Technology]]), Dickey returned to academia in earnest in 1969 as a professor of English and writer-in-residence at the [[University of South Carolina]], a position he held for the remainder of his life. It was there that he was also inducted into [[Omicron Delta Kappa]], the National Leadership Honor Society, in 1970.

Dickey wrote the poem ''The Moon Ground'' for ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine in celebration of the [[Apollo 11]] Moon landing.  His reading of it was broadcast on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC television]] on July 20, 1969.{{r|MoonGround_1969}}

His popularity exploded after the [[Deliverance|film version]] of his novel ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]'' was released in 1972. Dickey wrote the screenplay and had a cameo in the film as a sheriff.

On January 20, 1977, Dickey was invited to read his poem ''The Strength of Fields''{{r|Strength_Fields|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wholemotioncolle00dick/page/378 378{{hyphen}}379]}} at the [[inauguration of Jimmy Carter]].

==Personal life==
In November 1948 Dickey married Maxine Syerson, and three years later they had their first son, [[Christopher Dickey|Christopher]]; a second son, Kevin, was born in 1958.

Christopher Dickey was a novelist and journalist, providing coverage from the Middle East for ''[[Newsweek]]''. In 1998, Christopher wrote a book about his father and Christopher's own sometimes troubled relationship with him, titled ''Summer of Deliverance''. Christopher died in July 2020.{{r|Nadeau_2020}}

Kevin Dickey is an [[interventional radiologist]] and lives in [[Winston-Salem, NC]].

Two months after Maxine died in 1976, Dickey married one of his students, Deborah Dodson.{{r|Davison_1998|Trueheart_1987}} Their daughter, [[Bronwen Dickey|Bronwen]], was born in 1981. Bronwen is an author, journalist, and lecturer. Her first book, ''[[Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon]]'',{{r|BronwenDickey_PitBull_2016}}  was published in 2016.

===Death===
Dickey died on January 19, 1997, aged 73, six days after his last class at the [[University of South Carolina Columbia|University of South Carolina]], where from 1968 he taught as poet in residence. 
Dickey spent his last years in and out of hospitals, afflicted with severe [[alcoholism]],{{r|Davison_1998}} [[jaundice]] and later [[pulmonary fibrosis]].

== Works ==
===Publications===
==== Novels ====
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*{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author1-mask = 1 | date = 1994-09-10 | orig-date = 1970 | title = Deliverance  | url = https://archive.org/details/deliverance00jame | url-access = registration | language = en | edition = Reprint | publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf]] | isbn = 978-0-38-531387-2 | lccn = 71100100 | oclc = 472816545 | ol = OL7439054M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}
*{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author1-mask = 1 | date = 1987-05-05  | title = Alnilam | url = https://archive.org/details/alnilamdick00dick | url-access = registration | language = en | edition = First | publisher = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] | isbn = 978-0-38-506549-8 | lccn = 86019699 | oclc = 751299075 | ol = OL2725934M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}
*{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author1-mask = 1 | date = 1993-09-01  | title = To the White Sea | url = https://archive.org/details/towhitesea00dick | url-access = registration | language = en | edition = First | publisher = [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]] | isbn = 978-0-39-547565-2 | lccn = 93001247 | oclc = 1132264321 | ol = OL1394042M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all}}
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==== Poetry ====
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* ''Into the Stone and Other Poems'' (in ''Poets of Today VII'') (1960)
* ''Drowning with Others'' (1962)
* ''Two Poems of the Air'' (1964)
* ''Helmets'' (1964)
* ''[[Buckdancer's Choice|Buckdancer's Choice: Poems]]'' (1965) —winner of the [[National Book Award]]<ref name=nba1966/>
* ''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)
* ''Exchanges'' (1971)
* ''The Zodiac'' (1976)
* ''The Owl King'' (1977)
* ''Veteran Birth: The Gadfly Poems 1947-49'' (1978)
* ''Tucky the Hunter'' (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)
* ''For a Time and Place'' (1983)
* ''Intervisions'' (1983)
* ''The Central Motion: Poems 1968-79'' (1983)
* ''Bronwen, The Traw, and the Shape-Shifter: A Poem in Four Parts'' (1986)
* ''Summons'' (1988)
* ''The Eagle's Mile'' (1990)
*{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James L. | author-mask1 = 1 | date = 1992-03-15 | title = The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945–1992 | url = https://archive.org/details/wholemotioncolle00dick | url-access = registration | series = Wesleyan Poetry | language = en-us | publisher = [[Wesleyan University Press]] | isbn = 978-0-81-952202-3 | lccn = 91050811 | oclc = 767498572 | ol = OL1566756M | via = [[Internet Archive]] | df = dmy-all }}
* ''The Selected Poems'' (1998)
* ''The Complete Poems of James Dickey'' (2013)
* ''Death, and the Day's Light'' (2015)
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==== Illustrated prose ====
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*{{cite book | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author1-mask = 1 | date = 1979  | title = In pursuit of the grey soul | url =  | url-access =  | language = en | edition = Limited  | publisher = Bruccoli Clark | isbn = 978-0-89-723004-9 | lccn = 79004224 | oclc = 4804818 | ol = OL4402809M | df = dmy-all}}
{{refend}}

==== Non-fiction ====
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*{{cite book | last1 = Shuptrine | first1 = Hubert  | last2 = Dickey | first2 = James | author2-mask = 1 | date = 1974-01-01 | title = Jericho: The South Beheld | url =  | url-access =  | language = en | edition = First | publisher = [[Oxmoor House]] | isbn = 978-1-12-534600-6 | lccn = 74078763 | oclc = 35987784 | ol = OL8257523M | df = dmy-all}}
{{refend}}

===Filmography===
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*{{cite AV media | last1 = Dickey | first1 = James | author1-mask = 1 | last2 = Lowell | first2 = Robert | author2-link = Robert Lowell | others = Croner, Stanley (director) | date = 1970 | title = Lord Let Me Die But Not Die Out {{!}} A James Dickey Documentary | language = en | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_wDtMosdJs | access-date = 2022-02-01 | archive-url =  | archive-date =  | type = Documentary film | time =  | location = Atlanta, Georgia | via = [[YouTube]] | publisher = [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] | df = dmy-all}}
* ''[[Deliverance]]'' (novel / screenplay) (1972) - Sheriff Bullard (cameo film role)
* ''[[The Call of the Wild (1976 film)|The Call of the Wild]]'' (screenplay) (1976)
{{refend}}

==References==
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<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, 1945–1992 | 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 father’s 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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==External links==
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* [http://www.jamesdickey.net The James Dickey Page]
* [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/5/resources/966 James Dickey papers at the University of South Carolina Department of Rare Books and Special Collections]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050309001927/http://www.jamesdickey.org/ James Dickey Newsletter & Society]
* [http://www.cnn.com/US/9701/21/dickey.interview/ CNN Audio Clips with James Dickey]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcSQN6RxaaE 1977 audio interview of James Dickey by Stephen Banker] 
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/363 James Dickey] at Academy of American Poets — with brief biography and selected list of works
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130105111159/http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/dickey.html James Dickey Papers] at Washington University in St. Louis
* [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/5/resources/122 Joyce Morrow Pair collection of James Dickey at the University of South Carolina Department of Rare Books and Special Collections]
* [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/5/resources/109 Matthew J. Bruccoli collection of James Dickey at the University of South Carolina Department of Rare Books and Special Collections]
* [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/5/resources/117 Donald J. and Ellen Greiner collection of James Dickey at the University of South Carolina Department of Rare Books and Special Collections]
* [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/Literature/Fiction/Authors&id=h-452 James Dickey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201014820/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=%2FLiterature%2FFiction%2FAuthors&id=h-452 |date=February 1, 2013 }} in ''New Georgia Encyclopedia''
* [http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/dickey/dickey.htm James Dickey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228193334/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickey/dickey.htm |date=December 28, 2015 }} at Modern American Poetry
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* [http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/press/scr/dickey.htm James Dickey Revisited] - online "themed issue" of the ''[[South Carolina Review]]'' that collects all pieces by and about James Dickey that have been published in that literary journal since 2001, in addition to content related to a James Dickey Festival that was hosted at [[Clemson University]].
* [http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/press/scr/dickey/dickey_bronwen.pdf Bronwen Dickey on her father's legacy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229082930/http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/press/scr/dickey/dickey_bronwen.pdf |date=December 29, 2015 }}
* [http://www.theharbinger.org/xvi/971007/clark.html Clark Powell Harbinger, "James Dickey: A Personal Memory"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170126/http://www.theharbinger.org/xvi/971007/clark.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}
* {{cite interview |interviewer=Franklin Ashley |title=James Dickey, The Art of Poetry No. 20 |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3741/the-art-of-poetry-no-20-james-dickey |date=Spring 1976 |periodical=[[The Paris Review]] |issue=65}}
*[http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z712 James Dickey Papers] at Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

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