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Visible Ink
George Starbuck
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Paperback. A final collection of poems by George Starbuck in which he demonstrates a deepening of his work as he knowingly approaches death. Most of the peoms were originally published in various publications, including the "New Yorker", and range in subject matter from war to pop culture, baseball to jazz. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 145.
In this last original book from renowned poet George Starbuck, we see a joyous and clear-eyed deepening of his work as he knowingly approaches death. Starbuck's skill with the American language and sensitivity to the rhythms of vernacular speech, his lyric sensibility (at once erudite and irreverent), and his impish satire engaging broad social and political issues are all trademarks of his widely praised verse. So too is his technical agility, richly displayed here in multiple forms, but particularly in the formal invention he called Standard Length and Breadth Sonnets, or SLABS. Most of the poems in Visible Ink were ... Read more
In this last original book from renowned poet George Starbuck, we see a joyous and clear-eyed deepening of his work as he knowingly approaches death. Starbuck's skill with the American language and sensitivity to the rhythms of vernacular speech, his lyric sensibility (at once erudite and irreverent), and his impish satire engaging broad social and political issues are all trademarks of his widely praised verse. So too is his technical agility, richly displayed here in multiple forms, but particularly in the formal invention he called Standard Length and Breadth Sonnets, or SLABS. Most of the poems in Visible Ink were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817311551
SKU
V9780817311551
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Ref
99-3
About George Starbuck
George Starbuck (1931-1996) won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for his first book of poems, Bone Thoughts, in 1960 and the Lenore Marshall poetry prize for The Argot Merchant Disaster in 1982. In addition to penning six other books, Starbuck was also widely known for 25 years as a teacher of poetry and director of writing programs at ... Read more
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