The Works: Poems Selected from Five Decades

by George Starbuck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817313788
• ISBN13: 9780817313784
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 9.6"