WILLIAM DICKEY
William Dickey, a poet whose work spanned more than four decades, died on May 3 at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 65 and lived San Francisco. The cause was complications of surgery, said his companion, Leonard Sanazaro. Dickey first attracted attention in 1959 when W.H. Auden chose his volume of poetry Of the Festivity for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets. The most recent of Dickey's 15 books of poems was In the Dreaming, published in January by the University of Arkansas Press. In 1991, he retired as a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he taught for nearly 30 years. He also taught at Cornell University and Denison University. Dickey was born in Bellingham, Wash., and graduated from Reed College. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1955
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) 09 May 1994
William Dickey, a poet whose work spanned more than four decades, died on May 3 at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 65 and lived San Francisco. The cause was complications of surgery, said his companion, Leonard Sanazaro. Dickey first attracted attention in 1959 when W.H. Auden chose his volume of poetry Of the Festivity for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets. The most recent of Dickey's 15 books of poems was In the Dreaming, published in January by the University of Arkansas Press. In 1991, he retired as a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he taught for nearly 30 years. He also taught at Cornell University and Denison University. Dickey was born in Bellingham, Wash., and graduated from Reed College. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1955
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) 09 May 1994
WILLIAM DICKEY
William Dickey, a poet whose work spanned more than four decades, died on May 3 at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 65 and lived San Francisco. The cause was complications of surgery, said his companion, Leonard Sanazaro. Dickey first attracted attention in 1959 when W.H. Auden chose his volume of poetry Of the Festivity for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets. The most recent of Dickey's 15 books of poems was In the Dreaming, published in January by the University of Arkansas Press. In 1991, he retired as a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he taught for nearly 30 years. He also taught at Cornell University and Denison University. Dickey was born in Bellingham, Wash., and graduated from Reed College. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1955
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) 09 May 1994
William Dickey, a poet whose work spanned more than four decades, died on May 3 at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 65 and lived San Francisco. The cause was complications of surgery, said his companion, Leonard Sanazaro. Dickey first attracted attention in 1959 when W.H. Auden chose his volume of poetry Of the Festivity for the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets. The most recent of Dickey's 15 books of poems was In the Dreaming, published in January by the University of Arkansas Press. In 1991, he retired as a professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he taught for nearly 30 years. He also taught at Cornell University and Denison University. Dickey was born in Bellingham, Wash., and graduated from Reed College. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1955
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) 09 May 1994
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