Reading: James Dickey
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
21-3-1980 8:00 PM
End Date
21-3-1980 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 21, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers,” James Dickey reads a selection of his work, telling the story behind each piece. Dickey reads the poems “Encounter in the Cage Country,” “The Performance,” “The Driver,” a rhymed childrens book he wrote for his grandson, “Autumn,” part of the “False Youth” series of poems, recites a limerick he wrote to cure a friend's tenseness, reads “Jawbone,” “The Sheep Child,” “Springhouse, House, and Beyond,” concluding with an excerpt from Deliverance.
Reading: James Dickey
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 21, 1980, as part of the 11th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Storytellers,” James Dickey reads a selection of his work, telling the story behind each piece. Dickey reads the poems “Encounter in the Cage Country,” “The Performance,” “The Driver,” a rhymed childrens book he wrote for his grandson, “Autumn,” part of the “False Youth” series of poems, recites a limerick he wrote to cure a friend's tenseness, reads “Jawbone,” “The Sheep Child,” “Springhouse, House, and Beyond,” concluding with an excerpt from Deliverance.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1980/day5/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.