Buckdancer's Choice
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Buckdancer's Choice
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Buckdancer's Choice (1965) is a collection of poems by James Dickey. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Poetry in 1966 and the Melville Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America. The opening poem, "The Firebombing," relates a World War II pilot's memory of a night air raid on Beppu, Japan. The New York Times reviewer Joseph Bennett called it "one of the most important long poems written postwar." In the poem "Buckdancer's Choice," the narrator listens as his mother, dying of emphysema i
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1965 poetry collection by James Dickey
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2007-01-30T22:29:19Z
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2024-08-29T17:46:50Z
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