Search Results: Titles starting with W from Dickey Books

Wallace Stevens: An Illustrated Bibliography – The Early Years 1899-1924.

Wallace Stevens: An Illustrated Bibliography – The Early Years 1899-1924.
8 1/2 x 11 edition.

Paul Dickey is an American poet, author of prose, philosophy instructor, and playwright who has published several books of poetry and two full-length plays. This volume of "What My Characters Should Have Said" if a collection of prose, short stories, and memoir. Dickey has published fiction (including flash fiction, short plays, creative non-fiction, and poetry in multiple genres, including prose poetry, formal verse-both serious and comic, and free verse. His poetry and flash fiction has appeared over 200 online and print publications.His prose, stories, and memoir has appeared in Potomac Review, failbetter, Memoir (and), The Potomac, Per Contra, Forge, Pinyon Review, The Opiate, Milk Can Review, Amarillo Bay, Chiron Review, Laurel Review, and Plume, among other online and print publications.

WIRES OVER THE HOMEPLACE is a late eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier of ancestors clearing fields across America to raise young families and new generations. It's also a coming-of-age story for a postmodernist computer programmer retiree in the early twenty-first century writing his second book of poetry. Somewhere it may contain a story snatched from your own heart. WIRES happens in places that once were prairies, wheat fields, ball fields, hospital waiting rooms, and schools-and occupied by jack rabbits, snakes, and rusted tractors in the fields. The only constant may be the dark birds perched on the wires. The cinematography is Dickeyville, Wisconsin; Iowa; Wichita; Oklahoma; and Omaha. At this very minute, or perhaps the moment you start to read, the book means what it says, which is a Great Plains value. In the book though, much will happen and meaning can't always be rigidly predicted and controlled. You'll drive the I-80 Interstate through Iowa and buy nails or a bucket of paint in an… Read More

1968, Stated First Printing. Hardcover w/ original, unclipped Dust Jacket.

Advice for aspiring writers on style, genres, and aspects of the publishing industry, the market, and the reader. Includes excerpts of less-than-eternal, but successful writing, illustrating the rewards of competence and professionalism. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First Edition. Sound advice from a professional editor, showing aspiring writers how to write competently and professionally enough to be published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.