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Article: Selected Poems, 1959-1999.(Book review)
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- April 1, 2006
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Selected Poems, 1959-1999. By George Dickerson, New York: Rattapallax, 2000. $14.95 (pa.)
Was F. Scott Fitzgerald right about there being no second acts in American lives? Though American literature is strewn with writers who have died or burnt out young, the generation born in the 1920s and 1930s has yielded several examples of poets who came later in their lives to vocation, recognition, or both: Samuel Menashe, Gerald Stern, Rachel Loden, and George Dickerson. Dickerson has led an interesting life: he is not only a poet, he is no doubt the only person who was both a Hollywood character actor (Blue Velvet, Hill Street Blues) and a high-level diplomatic ...