Description
Book SynopsisFrom eco-poetics to the erotic,
Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.
Trade Review"This is David Baker’s finest book: combinations of poise and grit, sensitivity and impact, enlivened with an astute control of language. In ‘Scavenger Loop,’ the focal poem and Baker’s masterpiece, we encounter the poetically immaculate. This poem is a true pastoral elegy out of which a new beauty comes—the beauty of resistance, of saying enough is enough. We have an obligation to utter this, and Baker has." -- John Kinsella
"The breadth of
Scavenger Loop is immense, encompassing nature’s foment, the unbiodegradeable stuff of culture, and language itself. Somber yet savvy, elegant yet casual,
Scavenger Loop is a book of becoming, a lost and found with a radius wide as consciousness itself. Reading it is like being inside the shifts of a capacious, roiling mind and, like all great poetry, it keeps unfolding with uneasy, surreptitious grace." -- Alice Fulton
