VanNess’s Dickey essay accepted

Gordon Van Ness’s essay “James Dickey, Vicente Aleixandre, and the Question of Poetic Creativity” has been accepted for publication by The South Carolina Review.

VanNess Publication Accepted

Mercer University Press has accepted Gordon Vanness’ book manuscript of James Dickey’s Death, and the Day’s Light for publication.  The publication represents the last volume of poems that Dickey was working on when he died in 1997. VanNess edited the volume and provided both an editorial note and an extended commentary.

Gordon VanNess

Gordon Van Ness has had his essay titled “James Dickey, The Zodiac, and ‘the strange, silent words of God’” accepted by Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art for its winter/spring issue. The journal is published by Georgia State University.

Gordon VanNess

Gordon Van Ness recently published an essay in the online James Dickey Newsletter titled “The Question of Poetics: James Dickey and the Modernists.” In addition, he has finished editing Death, and the Day’s Light, the last manuscript Dickey was working on when he died and which has been approved for publication by the Estate.