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Starkey's Book of States (Paperback)
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Starkey's Book of States (Paperback)
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List price R271
Loot Price R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
You Save R33 (12%)
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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
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