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" The works : "
George Starbuck ; foreword by Anthony Hecht ; edited by Kathryn Starbuck and Elizabeth Meese.
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973370
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b727740
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Works.
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Starbuck, George,1931-1996.
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The works : : poems selected from five decades /\ George Starbuck ; foreword by Anthony Hecht ; edited by Kathryn Starbuck and Elizabeth Meese.
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)
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0817350535
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0817313788
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0817350535
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9780817313784
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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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American literature.
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American poetry.
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American literature.
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American poetry.
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POETRY-- American-- General.
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811/.54
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PS3569.T3356A6 2003eb
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Meese, Elizabeth A.,1943-
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Starbuck, Kathryn,1939-
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