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Vocabulary from Stephen King's Favorite Poem

Learn 15 words from " Falling," by James Dickey. Stephen King just told The New York Times it's his favorite!

Describing the poem, King wrote: Published in 1967, its delirious language, coupled with a clear narrative, make it a precursor to Dickey’s novel “Deliverance,” published three years later. The poem is audacious, sensuous and completely beautiful. It’s also as neat a parable of the human condition as has ever been written."
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