Description: The poetry of Clem Starck is an American Works and Days.... This is the kind of poetry Whitman called for: an expression of the individual— original, moving, refreshingly unacademic.
Northwest Poet and Carpenter Clem Starck, winner of the Oregon Book Award and Stafford Memorial Prize. His books, audio CD's, sample poems, biography and contact information.
The Madrona Project: A Festschrift for Clemens Starck, 2020 from Empty Bowl .
Clemens Starck's first book of poems, Journeyman’s Wages , received the 1996 Oregon Book Award as well as the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. His next two books — Studying Russian on Company Time (1999) and China Basin (2002) — were also finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Traveling Incognito , a letterpress chapbook from Wood Works in Seattle, appeared in 2004. Rembrandt, Chainsaw, another letterpress chapbook, was published in the fall of 2011.