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The Great Escape
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
August 29, 1993| Author:
Jonathan Yardley
| Copyright 1993 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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TO THE WHITE SEA
By James Dickey
Houghton Mifflin. 272 pp. $22.95
A QUARTER-CENTURY ago James Dickey was scarcely known beyond the
rarified poetic circles in which his career to that point had been
spent. It is true that one of his collections, Buckdancer's Choice,
had won a National Book Award in 1966; that a long poem called
"Falling" had attracted attention when it appeared in the New Yorker
the following year; that some magazine editors were aware that
Dickey, a form...
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