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...sand-and-weed roads in Cape Cod and felt the sea grass brush against my thighs. I never studied nature, and I do not now. The closest I have come to study is to reread the great nature writers--David Quammen, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, Annie Dillard and the poet Ted Hughes--and to pick up some sensory information through their wide-open eyes...
...Complicated" appears in a blurb on the jacket of Summer of Deliverance (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $24), Christopher Dickey's loving, ruthless portrait of his father, the poet-novelist James Dickey. In the blurb, the novelist Pat Conroy writes, "If there ever lived a more complicated father, husband, and writer than James Dickey, I have not heard...
...interest in these sanctuaries, amid a pop culture in which nuns and monks are usually depicted as demanding and dry or who, in their softest incarnations, wonder, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"? Theories vary, but one reason is poet and novelist Kathleen Norris. She first hit the best-seller list in 1993 with Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, a meditation on the farm crisis, religion and the wind-whipped Plains state of North Dakota. That was followed in 1996 by The Cloister Walk, a log of the nine months that Norris, a married Protestant, spent living among...
...right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since then he has worked as a college history professor, as narrator of the civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize, and even as a poet...
...poet Richard Wilbur once visited a poetry class that I was in, and he told a girl who had figured out a line of his, "It's nice to have someone catch what you're throwing...