Never-Ending Birds - Poems

Part map, part travelogue, part chronicle, part autobiography, Never-Ending Birds explores a variety of landscapes from Midwestern villages to the boroughs of big cities. Steeped in story-divorce, loss, raising a child, uncovering old worlds and new loves-these poems are gracefully lived in, lived through, with mystery and beauty.

from "Never-Ending Birds":

That's us pointing to the clouds. Those are clouds

of birds, now we see, one whole cloud of birds.

There we are, pointing out the car windows.

October. Gray-blue-white olio of birds.

Never-ending birds, you called the first time-

years we say it, the three of us, any

two of us, one of those just endearments.

Apt clarities. Kiss on the lips of hope.

About the author

David Baker is a poet, critic, and educator. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University.

Summary

"This collection is moving, emotionally raw, yet subtle and careful."-Benjamin S. Grossberg, Antioch Review

Product details

• Authors: David Baker
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2011
• EAN: 9780393339697
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33969-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 153 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets