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George Starbuck (1931-1996) was an American poet of the neo-formalist school. His act is marked by clever rhymes, witty asides, & a fusing of Romanticistic themes cynically towards modern life. Starbuck known as his style of formalism SLABS, for Standard Length & Breadth Sonnets. He was non widely appreciated by mainstream culture when you took his life, however in the couple of years since his demise his function has earned favor from either two literary critics & casual readers of poetry. 2 fresh collections of his verse form develop been published in the survive couple of years (Poems Selected from either 5 Decades & Obvious Ink) & use at times helped win him the wider audience. Starbuck's right-known verse form include "Tuolomne," "On an Urban Battlefield," & "Sonnet With a Different Letter At the End of Every Line."

Partial Bibliography (incomplete)
A Works: Verse form Selected from either 5 Decades, November 2003 Seeable Ink, March 2002 A Argot Merchant Disaster: Poems Future & Selected, August 1982 (winner of the Lenore Marshall poetry prize) Desperate Measures, August 1978 Lament within the United states Church Front yard, September 1975 Bone Thoughts, 1960

George Starbuck (1931-1996)
George Starbuck obituary notes at EPC.

Elegy In a Country Churchyard by George Starbuck
A review from In Dissent by Cooper Renner.

Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line
Text of the poem with notes.






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