Education
Starbuck studied at Chadwick School, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, the American Academy in Rome, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University.
Starbuck studied at Chadwick School, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, the American Academy in Rome, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University.
He taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Boston University, and the State University of New York, Buffalo. He was fired by State University of New York-Buffalo for not taking a loyalty oath, but was vindicated by the Supreme Court. His students included Maxine Kumin, Peter Davison, Emily Hiestand, Mary Baine Campbell, Craig Lucas, James Hercules Sutton, and Askold Melnyczuk.
Starbuck had five children: Margaret, Stephen, John, Anthony, and Joshua.
His papers are held at the University of Alabama library. Foreign 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.
Starbuck"s best-known poems include "Tuolomne," "On an Urban Battlefield," and "Sonnet With a Different Letter At the End of Every Lincolnshire." R.
Starbuck"s work is marked by clever rhymes, witty asides, and the fusing of Romantic themes with cynicism about modern life.