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Clemens Starck: Old Dogs, New Tricks
OLD DOGS, NEW TRICKS Clemens Starck, winner of the Oregon Book Award, brings his latest poetry chapbook, Old Dogs, New Tricks, to Northtown Books on Friday, February 17 at 7 p.m. He will be introduced by Jerry Martien. In his long career Starck worked on railroads and ranches, shipped out as a merchant seaman, and was for many years a union carpenter and construction foreman. After selecting him for the book award, Carolyn Kizer said, “I’m not alone in particularly cherishing poems by people who work with their hands.” Starck lives in the eastern foothills of the Coast Range, and his six books of poetry are often about rural subjects: looking for a part for a Kobota tractor, fixing a brake cable on an old Chevy pickup, settling a fence dispute with a neighbor. But his poems are also about ancient Chinese poets, and the Russian authors he has read and studied for years. At one time he could be found by day performing maintenance tasks at OSU Corvallis, and in the evening lecturing on Eastern European poetry at nearby Willamette College. Jerry Martien is the author of a collection of poetry, Pieces in Place, and a recent history of money and marijuana in Humboldt County. He will read from his own poems about carpentry, Journey Work and At The School Of Doors.
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