David Baker
David Baker
Awards
Shortlisted — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2011
Winner — Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, 2011
Books by David Baker
Midwest Eclogue: Poems
Paperback, 2007
"The most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright."—Marilyn Hacker
Never-Ending Birds: Poems
Paperback, 2011
“This collection is moving, emotionally raw, yet subtle and careful.”—Benjamin S. Grossberg, Antioch Review
Scavenger Loop: Poems
Paperback, 2016
"[The] language . . . Feels almost ancient solely by the skill with which Baker uses it."—Los Angeles Review of Books.
Swift: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2020
A sweeping achievement from a poet whose rhythms are as alive to the roll and tang of syllables on the tongue as they are to the circulation of blood and sap (Rosanna Warren, Theodore Roethke...
Scavenger Loop: Poems
E Book, 2015
“[The] language . . . feels almost ancient solely by the skill with which Baker uses it.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Swift: New and Selected Poems
E Book, 2019
“Rich in observation, imagination and memory.” —New York Times Book Review
Whale Fall: Poems
Hardback, 2022
A masterful and moving new volume from a “peerless poet of the natural world” (New York Times Book Review).
Whale Fall: Poems
E Book, 2022
“The craft of Whale Fall defies. It asserts, for me, a definition of poetry: an unbearable gulf of feeling made indelible by form.”—Diane Seuss, Paris Review
A masterful and moving new volume from...
Whale Fall: Poems
Paperback, 2024
A masterful and moving new volume from a “peerless poet of the natural world” (The New York Times Book Review)
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly
Hardback, 2025
The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers