Ebook {Epub PDF} James Dickey: The World as a Lie by Henry Hart

That divide, between the world as truth and as a lie, is at the center of Henry Hart’s massive biography of a man who is at once one of America’s greatest and yet least important poets, a. The main burden of Henry Hart’s recently published James Dickey: The World as a Lie (Picador, $35), coming to the reading public after eight years of intensive research and investigation, is two-fold: to set a highly inaccurate record straight, and to establish a factual and critical basis for future examinations of the poet’s life and art. It was not an easy job, though Hart could not have known that at the outset. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks/5(45).

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