Cover; CONTENTS; Foreword; PART ONE Poems from the 1950s to the 1970s: selections from Bone Thoughts, White Paper, and Desperate Measures; PART TWO Shapes from the 1970s to the 1990s; PART THREE Poems from the 1980s to the 1990s: selections from Talkin' B.A. Blues, The Argot Merchant Disaster and Visible Ink; About the Author.
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Eighty-one poems spanning the career of the late George Starbuck, widely praised luminary of modern American verse. Starbuck was known in his lifetime and is remembered today as a practitioner of verse remarkable for its pathos, intelligence, and wit. A master of American vernacular, sensitive to the rhythms of everyday speech, Starbuck was also a brilliant lyricist, at once erudite and irreverent. He addressed some of the most profound issues of his day with a playful ingenuity and a virtuosity of talent that Glyn Maxwell, poetry editor of the New Republic, writing in The Oxford Companion to.
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