‘Powerful, personal, and purifying.’ Heather Sellers, author of Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Based on iconic representations of Bible scenes, David Starkey’s poems in The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light attempt to recapture some of the strangeness of great Italian painters like Giotto, Fillipo Lippi, Bellini, Caravaggio and Gentileschi, while incorporating elements of contemporary life into work that is by turns witty, wild, sad, subversive and reverential. Twelve mystical and timeless conté crayon drawings by artist Rafael Perea de la Cabada deepen and argue with Starkey’s often skeptical interpretations of the Gospel. The result is a reading and rendering of the New Testament like no other.
About the author
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. The Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, he is the author of a number of books of poetry with small presses, including, most recently, You, Caravaggio and Cutting It Loose (2024 and 2022, both with Pine Row Press) and What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency (Vine Leaves, Press, 2021). He has also written a popular textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 4th edition, 2023), and the novel Poor Ghost (Turner, 2024).
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