Swift: New and Selected Poems

Synopsis

A Sweeping Poetic Achievement, Swift Represents David Baker's Evolution As One Of American Poetry's Most Significant Voices. Gathering Poems From Eight Collections--including The Widely Acclaimed Changeable Thunder (2001) And His Masterful Latest, Scavenger Loop (2015)--and Adding Three Suites Of New Poems, David Baker Proves Himself Once Again The Most Expansive And Moving Poet To Come Out Of The American Midwest Since James Wright (marilyn Hacker). With Equal Curiosity And Candor, He Explores The Many Worlds We All Inhabit--from Our Most Intimate Relationships To The Wider Social Worlds Of Neighborhoods, Villages, And Our Complex National Identity, To The Environmental Community We All Share. From Swift A Voice In Awe Turns Inward; As Looking Down Into A Canyon, The Self Grows Small. The Smaller Swifts Are Larger For Their Singing-- Pastoral -- Why Not Say -- Early May -- Stolen Sonnet -- Why Not Say -- Tree Frogs -- The Sea -- After -- The Osprey -- Waiting For News -- The Wren -- Gather -- Checkpoint -- Elegy, In Words -- Peril Sonnet -- Swift -- Simile -- What Is A Weed? -- Magnolia -- Odes On Absence -- Belong To -- Scavenger Loop -- Trillium -- Posthumous Man -- The Rumor -- Horse Madness -- Never- Ending Birds -- Bay -- Too Many -- Monarchs Landing And Flying -- Hyper- -- The Spring Ephemerals -- Winged -- Midwest Eclogue -- The Blue -- Late Pastoral -- Benton's Clouds -- Pulp Fiction -- Trees Beside Water -- After Rain -- The City Of God -- Unconditional Election -- Ohio Fields After Rain -- Still-hildreth Sanitorium, 1936 -- Yellow Lilies And Cypress Swamp -- Holiday Bunting -- The Truth About Small Towns -- Tract -- The Affair -- Treatise On Touch -- Snow Figure -- Along The Storm Front -- Red Shift -- Faith -- Murder -- Mercy -- After The Reunion -- November: The End Of Myth -- Starlight -- Patriotics -- Running The River Lines -- The Wrecker Driver Foresees Your Death -- The Anniversary Of Silence -- Haunts. David Baker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.