{"product_id":"9781936657230","title":"Lost Salmon","description":"\u003cp\u003e“These poems tell stories of the place where I live and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplace I love. These are poems that will touch you and make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou think. Many you will read over again.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Marty Sherman, former editor of Flyfishing magazine,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand salesman for ClackaCraft Drift Boats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Norman Maclean wrote that, ‘Under the rocks are the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewords, and some of the words are theirs.’ This is the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eancestral place from which Scott Starbuck dipped his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehands and brought us poetry. This is the human condition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediffused like sunlight through water. Starbuck has shown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eus brightly colored flashes of life that appear and vanish in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe blink of an eye like a trout rising then gone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scott T. Starbuck’s Lost Salmon, a collection of seventynine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshort poems, also reads like one long poem given the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways in which it accumulates toward a single clear-eyed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evision or meditation on time and memory. And which is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto say that each moment recorded enacts that lovely-sad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emix of elegy and celebration.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jack Driscoll, author of Fishing the Backwash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Starbuck is a poet who has fished and is still looking for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat perfect fish—and poem. Always happily searching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike a good steelheader to the end of the day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Frank Amato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scott Starbuck has a way of defining the world in these\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalm and graceful poems capturing the rhythms of water\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand sky. There is grace and light in his words. A charming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection of poetry you will return to again and again.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Larry Gavin, author of Stone \u0026amp; Sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MoonPath Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060034093296,"sku":"9781936657230","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936657230_p0.jpg?v=1763659644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936657230","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}