The Works: Poems Selected from Five Decades - Tapa blanda

"To the last, Starbuck's trademark craftsmanship and wit are on display. Structure, technique, a conspicuous lack of ego and a prepossessing deftness of touch characterize everything this poet set his hand to." "A dazzlingly clever and resourceful poet. . . . It's impossible to resist the language." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "To the last, Starbuck's trademark craftsmanship and wit are on display. Structure, technique, a conspicuous lack of ego and a prepossessing deftness of touch characterize everything this poet set his hand to."- "Contemporary Poetry Review"

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.