The Starman

By Duane Ackerson

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[Editor's Note: Many thanks to Duane Ackerson for giving us permission to reprint his work for a limited time in conjunction with Greg Beatty's "Reading the Rhysling." That time, unfortunately, has elapsed. You may find this poem in The Alchemy of Stars.]

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Duane Ackerson's latest poetry collection is The Bird at the End of the Universe. He and his wife Cathy, an artist and poet, live in Salem, Oregon. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship, and he won the 1978 Short Poem Rhysling Award for "The Starman," which, along with all other Rhysling winners from 1978 through 2004, can be found in The Alchemy of Stars.

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