Scavenger Loop: Poems [Paperback]

[The] language . . . feels almost ancient solely by the skill with which Baker uses it. I cant think of a recent book of poetry so capable ofmoving so easily and effectively between the mind andheart of the experience. This is a towering poetic consciousness. This is David Bakers finest book: combinations of poise and grit, sensitivity and impact, enlivened with an astute control of language. In Scavenger Loop, the focal poem and Bakers masterpiece, we encounter the poetically immaculate. This poem is a true pastoral elegy out of which a new beauty comesthe beauty of resistance, of saying enough is enough. We have an obligation to utter this, and Baker has. The breadth of