David Starkey

Starkey's Book of States

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Produktbeschreibung

From North Dakota, where "emptiness / takes up a lot / of space," to Alabama, where a mother offers "nothing / Less than plenty," David Starkey's poems mark him as nothing less than a "fool / For life." His book gives us a fireworks display of creativity as varied and strange as the states it conjures. We scoot along here in a word-RV bound for just about everywhere, from North Carolina, which possesses, so Starkey claims, an atomic peanut (while Texas doesn't, but provides blowing sage) to D. C., memorable for kids in the backseat who won't shut up, to Connecticut centered on "publish or perish" at Yale. The wonders here depend on constant shifts of focus: sometimes the poems inhabit personae-Thoreau, Sojourner Truth, Elvis (not in Tennessee but in Wisconsin)-sometimes they speak for the poet as memoir; always they surprise and thrill with their oddity of attack, their tart-voiced fearlessness, their range of subject as vast as the great country they so fully evoke. -Barry Spacks, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate The book is illustrated by Rafael Perea de la Cabada

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bitingduck Press
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9781932482546
• ISBN-10: 1932482547
• Artikelnr.: 22906252

Autorenporträt

David Starkey is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College and Coeditor of Gunpowder Press and The California Review of Books. A former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, he has published poetry in American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review and many others. His textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's) is in its fourth edition, and his recent poetry collections include A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel, Circus Maximus, Like a Soprano and Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song. You can read more about him at davidstarkey.net.