Between River and Street
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491_9781936657582
Trust a contemplative fisherman of Northwest rivers to give us a wise poem collection like Between River & Street. Scott T. Starbuck brings thetender respectful eye of the naturalist; the nudge of the environmentalist; the long thoughts of the tribe; the brush of a painter sending exquisite linesof ink down paper. He also has an ear for a good story, scattering characters throughout-not the suits in the street whod never know what the salmon said or what the ancients knew, but people met or recounted at riverbanks, little bookstores, out-of-the-way cafes, bars. My favorite is the woman behind the counter, or is it Crazy Lucy and her roller rink in the barn or Maynard who loved his cow more than most? Youll read this book morethan once and find your own.-Florence Sage, author of Nevertheless: Poems from the Gray Area and The Man Who Whistled, The Woman Who Wished: A Polish-Canadian StoryWith Between River & Street, Scott T. Starbuck is deep listener, ace observer, shape-shifting storyteller. Hes historian, philosopher, climatologist, ecologist, lover, rememberer. Hes salmon, and salmon fisherman. Those who know Northwest rivers will want to pass this passionate book to friends. Those streetwise to our environmentally-challenged world will catch these smart, tough poems in order to release as seems right. Like the late Oregon poet, William Stafford, Starbuck writes of place with integrity, authenticity, humanity.-Ken Waldman, author of The Writing Party and Leftovers and GravyScott T. Starbucks poems are Oregon poems-humble yet heartfelt, all the way to the bone. Like filets of rosy salmon flesh, cooked on bonfire coals; these words lift easily from the carcass of felt sense. Between River & Street is a collection of mostly short but never simple poems, reflecting a life lived with daily presence and purpose. Starbucks poems attend to fish and to fish stream-the moss and fern, salal and spruce, wet stone and rivulet-but also the hominids,
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