Scavenger Loop: Poems
Scavenger Loop: Poems
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W. W. Norton
Annotation: From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.
Genre: [Poetry]
 
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Catalog Number: #111708
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Copyright Date: 2015
Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 05/04/15
Pages: 109 pages
ISBN: 0-393-24612-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-24612-4
Dewey: 811
LCCN: 2015000687
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Subject Heading:
Poetry.
Language: English
Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).
Reading Level: 9.0
Interest Level: 9+

In this masterful new work by "the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his beloved Midwest and traces the complex story of human habitation from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and the mysterious habitats of the heart. At the center of Scavenger Loop is a sustained investigation of cycles and the natural recycling of things, and a discovery that even out of the discarded and the lost may come rebirth and renewal. In the process Baker reveals how everything bears the potential to be both invasive and life-giving: plants that beautify and conquer, chemicals that heal and destroy, words that mislead and instruct. Widely praised for his "impeccable formalism" (Booklist), Baker pushes to new stylistic methods, moving fluidly between unity and disorder, working at times in sustained narratives and intricate syllabics, at other times in fragments, cross-outs, and erasures. These poems praise and sing but are also clear-eyed in their documentation of destruction, the loss of human livelihood and natural habitat, the spreading threat of agri-business and unchecked development. From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.


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