This final collection of poems from witty wordsmith and rhyme builder George Starbuck greatly expands his oeuvre and offers witness to the transformative power of poetry when practiced by a master.
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 irrevere…