Buckdancer's Choice

<P><B>Winner of the National Book Award (1966)</B><BR><B>Winner of the Melville Cane Award (1966)</B></P><P>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.</P><P>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. &quote;The Firebombing,&quote; &quote;Slave Quarters,&quote; &quote;The Fiend&quote;-these poems, with the others that comprise the present volume, show a mature and original poet at his finest.</P>