George Starbuck's "Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line"

<p>Today’s poem is a “row of perfect rhymes” and an absolute delight. Happy reading.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47048/sonnet-with-a-different-letter-at-the-end-of-every-line">You can find the text of the poem here.</a></p><p>George Starbuck was born in Columbus, Ohio on June 15, 1931. He grew up in Illinois and California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for two years, and the University of Chicago for three. He then studied with Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, alongside peers Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, at Harvard University. Starbuck won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his collection <em>Bone Thoughts</em> (1960). He is the author of several other books, including <em>The Argot Merchant Disaster: New and Selected Poems</em> (1982), <em>Elegy in a Country Church Yard</em> (1974), and <em>White Paper</em> (1966). He taught at the State University College at Buffalo, the University of Iowa, and Boston University.</...