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Buckdancer's Choice

Winner of the National Book Award (1966)

Winner of the Melville Cane Award (1966)

Whoever looks to a new book by James Dickeys for further work in an established mode, or for mere novelty, is going to be disappointed. But those who seek instead a true widening of the horizons of meaning, coupled with a sure-handed mastery of the craft of poetry, will find this latest collection satisfying indeed.

Here is a man who matches superb gifts with a truly subtle imagination, into whose depths he is courageously traveling — pioneering — in exploratory penetrations into areas of life that are too often evaded or denied. "The Firebombing," "Slave Quarters," "The Fiend" — these poems, with the others that comprise the present volume, show a mature and original poet at his finest.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 79
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780819510280
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1965