Buckdancer's Choice

Buckdancer's Choice

"Buckdancer's Choice" is a 1965 collection of poems by James Dickey. The book received the Melville Cane Award and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1966.

The opening poem, "The Firebombing," relates a World War II pilot's memory of a night air raid on Beppu, Japan. 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 in an adjacent room, whistles an old fiddle tune. The poem first appeared in "The New Yorker" for June 19, 1965, alongside "Hapworth 16, 1924", the last published story by J. D. Salinger.

External links

*Bennett, Joseph. [http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/30/specials/dickey-buckdancer.html "A Man with a Voice."] "New York Times", February 6, 1966.


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