Baker, David

David Baker is author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently "Whale Fall" (W. W. Norton, 2022), "Swift: New and Selected Poems" (W. W. Norton, 2019), "Scavenger Loop" (Norton, 2015), "Never-Ending Birds" (Norton, 2009), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011, and "Midwest Eclogue" (Norton, 2005). His six books of prose include "Seek After: Essays on Modern Lyric Poets" (SFA University Press, 2018), "Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems" (Michigan, 2014) and, with …