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Bone Thoughts.
- GenresPoetry
58 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
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George Starbuck
20 books3 followersfrom wikipedia: George Edwin Starbuck was an American poet of the neo-formalist school.
Starbuck's work is marked by clever rhymes, witty asides, and the fusing of Romantic themes with cynicism about modern life. For example, his book Bone Thoughts was published with half its pages blank, and he called his style of formalism "SLABS" (Standard Length And Breadth Sonnets. He was not widely appreciated in the mainstream culture during his lifetime, but two new collections of his poems have been published in the last few years, Poems Selected from Five Decades and Visible Ink, helping win him a wider audience.
Starbuck's best-known poems include "Tuolomne," "On an Urban Battlefield," and "Sonnet With a Different Letter At the End of Every Line."
Starbuck won the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry in 1993 and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1960.
Starbuck's work is marked by clever rhymes, witty asides, and the fusing of Romantic themes with cynicism about modern life. For example, his book Bone Thoughts was published with half its pages blank, and he called his style of formalism "SLABS" (Standard Length And Breadth Sonnets. He was not widely appreciated in the mainstream culture during his lifetime, but two new collections of his poems have been published in the last few years, Poems Selected from Five Decades and Visible Ink, helping win him a wider audience.
Starbuck's best-known poems include "Tuolomne," "On an Urban Battlefield," and "Sonnet With a Different Letter At the End of Every Line."
Starbuck won the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry in 1993 and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1960.
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November 12, 2015
The poet has a deftness with rhythm, language, and rhyme that is marvelous. Starbuck's skill is in taking what at first glance is a lighthearted rhythmic or rhyming poem as simple as whipped cream, and weaving in a deeper meaning that solidifies as he goes on so the finish is a satisfaction found of a richer, meatier poem.
June 27, 2015
This is a wonderful first book of poems from a writer who combines remarkable technical agility with sardonic humor and also deep feeling.
February 1, 2018
Starbuck has an amazing way of stringing words together beautifully... I thoroughly enjoyed his collection of poems. Wonderful first book.
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