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  <title><![CDATA[Buckdancer's Choice: Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>Whoever looks to a new book by James Dickey 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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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. &quot;The Firebombing,&quot; &quot;Slave Quarters,&quot; &quot;The Fiend&quot;--these poems, with the others that comprise the present volume, show a mature and original poet at his finest.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Dickey, Buckdancer's Choice (Wesleyan, 1965)<br/><br/>Buckdancer's Choice, Dickey's fourth book, should have been the one that catapulted him into the national spotlight. (That didn't happen for another five years, until he released his first novel: Deliverance.) Buckdancer's Choice won Dick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12922822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the anti-superfluousness. It's refreshing to read a poet who has so much to SAY- or REPORT, maybe, but clearly and intensely. Obviously, I'm partial to the time period, and also to war poems-- this book feels like a piece of Americana, but in a time capsule- not a flea market- kinda way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24493135">more...</a>]]></body>
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