James Dickey

James Dickey

Birthday: 2 February 1923, Buckhead, Georgia, USA
Birth Name: James Lafayette Dickey
Height: 191 cm
Born Feb. 2nd, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey served in the U.S. Air Force during W.W. II and went on to earn a BA & MA from Vanderbilt University and become a celebrated American author & poet, winning numerous awards for his literary works.To film goers, he is best known as the as the author of the best selling book turned gripping, psy... Show more »
Born Feb. 2nd, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey served in the U.S. Air Force during W.W. II and went on to earn a BA & MA from Vanderbilt University and become a celebrated American author & poet, winning numerous awards for his literary works.To film goers, he is best known as the as the author of the best selling book turned gripping, psychological film Deliverance (1972) starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight. Dickey has a small, but pivotal role near the film's conclusion as a steely Southern sheriff who doesn't wholly believe the businessmen's story about the ill-fated canoe.Dickey passed away on January 19th, 1997. Show less «
The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.
The poet is one who, because he cannot love, imagines what it would be like if he could.
I think [Allen Ginsberg] has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else ...Show more »
I think [Allen Ginsberg] has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, "If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that". Show less «
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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