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Starbuck's art portrays the madness of intense grief. Griefmania was her first book, written in her sixties. The reader will find, perhaps unknown to the poet, a book haunted by the good ghost of joy. Griefmania is a profoundly beautiful book which, in manuscript, was much appreciated by Anthony Hecht.

Starbuck was known in his lifetime and is remembered today as a practitioner of verse remarkable for its pathos, intellegence and wit. Grouped together by decades, the poems here reveal Starbuck's developing genius, his technical agility and his singular voice.

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 irreverent), and his impish satire engaging broad social and political issues are all trademarks of his...