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David Baker, poetry editor of the Kenyon Review, is one of contemporary poetry’s most gifted lyric poets. In Swift: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming in April 2019) he gathers poems from eight collections, including his masterful latest volume, Scavenger Loop (2015), and the intimate travelogues of Never-Ending Birds (2009), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. Swift opens with fifteen new poems that continue Baker’s growth in form and voice as he investigates the death of parents, the loss of homeland, and a widening natural history, not only of his beloved Midwest but of the tropical flora and fauna of a Caribbean island. Together, these poems showcase the evolution of his distinct eco-poetic conscience, his mastery of forms both erotic and elegiac, and his keen eye for the shifting landscapes of passion, heartbreak, and renewal. Baker is also the author of six critical books, most recently Seek After: On Seven Modern Lyric Poets (2018). He is Professor of English at Denison University, where he holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing, and is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America, and the Society of Midland Authors.
