George Starbuck

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George Edwin Starbuck (June 15, 1931 in Columbus, Ohio – August 15, 1996 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) was an American poet at the neo-formalist academy.

Life

Starbuck attended Chadwick School, the California Institute of Technology, Berkeley, Berkeley, the American Academy in Rome, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He worked with Robert Lowell in the Boston University workshop with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. He worked at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Boston University, and the State University of New York, Buffalo. He was fired by SUNY-Buffalo for failing to take a pledge of loyalty, but the Supreme Court affirmed his decision. Maxine Kumin, Peter Davison, Emily Hiestand, Mary Baine Campbell, Craig Lucas, James Hercules Sutton, and Askold Melnyczuk were among his classmates.

Margaret, Stephen, John, Anthony, and Joshua were among Starbuck's five children. His papers are on loan at the University of Alabama library.

Starbuck's career is marked by clever rhymes, witty asides, and the mixing of Romantic concepts with cynicism of modern life. Bone Thoughts, for example, was published with half of its pages unfinished, and he referred to his formalism as "SLABS" (Standard Length And Breadth Sonnets). During his lifetime, he was not widely acknowledged in the mainstream culture, but two new collections of his poems have been published in recent years, Poems Selected from Five Decades and Visible Ink, helping him win a larger audience.

"Tuolumne," "On an Urban Battlefield," and "Sonnet With a Different Letter At the End of Every Line" are two of Starbuck's best-known poems.

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Awards

• 1993 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
• 1982 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, for The Argot Merchant Disaster: Poems New and Selected
• 1960 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition