Buckdancer's Choice

"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

"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

"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

"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