June 10, 1967 (vol. 4, iss. 6) • Page Image 8
…4 * * f a Dickey' s Decade (Continued from page one) poets catch only a few glimpses." Dickey suggests some of the reasons why his work suddenly became so much better: I began to conceive of something I called-doubtless misleadingly- the "open" poem: a poem which would have none of the neatness of most of those poems we call "works of art" but would have the capacity to involve the reader in it, in all its imperfections and impuri- tie...…