It's clear James Dickey mythol­o­gized and often out­right lied about the cir­cum­stances of his life now, and what's been lost along with his crit­i­cal rep­u­ta­tion is the work, the work, my god the work. Six years of for­mal edu­ca­tion and I was never assigned a Dickey poem, which is a tragedy. A great poet (no […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…