Lost Salmon

"These poems tell stories of the place where I live and theplace I love. These are poems that will touch you and makeyou think. Many you will read over again."-Marty Sherman, former editor of Flyfishing magazine,and salesman for ClackaCraft Drift Boats"Norman Maclean wrote that, 'Under the rocks are thewords, and some of the words are theirs.' This is theancestral place from which Scott Starbuck dipped hishands and brought us poetry. This is the human conditiondiffused like sunlight through water. Starbuck has shownus brightly colored flashes of life that appear and vanish inthe blink of an eye like a trout rising then gone."-David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go"Scott T. Starbuck's Lost Salmon, a collection of seventynineshort poems, also reads like one long poem given theways in which it accumulates toward a single clear-eyedvision or meditation on time and memory. And which isto say that each moment recorded enacts that lovely-sadmix of elegy and celebration."-Jack Driscoll, author of Fishing the Backwash"Starbuck is a poet who has fished and is still looking forthat perfect fish-and poem. Always happily searchinglike a good steelheader to the end of the day."-Frank Amato"Scott Starbuck has a way of defining the world in thesecalm and graceful poems capturing the rhythms of waterand sky. There is grace and light in his words. A charmingcollection of poetry you will return to again and again."-Larry Gavin, author of Stone & Sky