Midwest Eclogue: Poems

by Baker, David

• ISBN13: 9780393060904
• ISBN10: 039306090X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

"The most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright."--Marilyn Hacker Midwest Eclogue is a profound dialogue between the heartland and the heart. David Baker's devotions are erotic and familial, natural and environmental, literary and social. Inspired by the landscape of the Midwest, Baker's landscape of human passions--haunted by roots and wings--is rendered in a rich and polyphonic craft.

Author Biography

David Baker is a professor of English at Denison University, where he holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing.

Table of Contents

ONE
Monarchs Landing and Flying	13	(1)
Hyper-	14	(5)
Post Meridian	19	(1)
The Judas-Horse	20	(2)
Bedlam	22	(9)
TWO
Primer of Words	31	(5)
The Spring Ephemerals	36	(3)
No One Said	39	(2)
White Violets and Coal Mine	41	(5)
My Mother in Shock	46	(3)
THREE
Melancholy Man	49	(3)
The Waves	52	(2)
Cardiognosis	54	(11)
Hedonism	65	(2)
Alchemical Man	67	(8)
FOUR
Winged	75	(1)
The Evidence	76	(2)
Midwest Eclogue	78	(5)
Hunger	83	(1)
October Storm	84	(7)
FIVE
The Blue	91	(6)
Slant Cut	97
Silo Oaks	96	(1)
Late Pastoral	97	(5)
White Heron Pond	102	(3)
Notes	105