Works

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starbuck, George, 1931-

Contributor:

Starbuck, Kathryn, 1939-

Meese, Elizabeth A., 1943-

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780817380960

0817380965

OCLC:

733238921