Studying Russian on Company Time

Poetry. Travel. In this unusual book, Oregon poet and carpenter Clemens Starck recounts in verse and in prose his involvement with Russia and the Russian language. "What began as a joke," writes Starck in the prologue, "soon turned into an obsession." Poems written during and around his twp trips to Russia in the 1990s alternate with bried prose commentaries providing the background and context from which the poems arose.