Críticas:
"James Dickey's fourth volume, Buckdancer's Choice, establishes him as one of the most important younger poets of our time. It has a passionate quality, an intense clarity, a cleansing of the totality of being into a kind of carefully separated madness that makes it one of the remarkable books of the decade."--Joseph Bennett, The New York Times Book Review "One of the remarkable books of the decade"--Joseph Bennett, The New York Times Book Review "When he is at his best, as he is in ['The Firebombing'], Dickey reminds one of the fire sermons in the work of T.S. Eliot, but unlike Eliot, Dickey is offering us a way out of the agony through his own vision of memory and hope. He travels away from the fire, taking us with him."--Sandra Hochman, Book Week "Dickey's work is full of dramatic energy, superb observation, and honesty. He remains one of the foremost poets of his generation." --The Virginia Kirkus' Service
Reseña del editor:
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. 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.
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