After the Reunion
Poems by David Baker
June 1994
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About
After the Reunion is an intensely lyrical collection of love poems and elegies from “the most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright,” as Marilyn Hacker has described him. In these quiet, powerful, and eloquent poems, David Baker explores the kinship of love to loss, discovering that each is an inevitable component of the other. The final movement of the book is a unification of these two modes and becomes a celebration of continuities, kinships, and renewals.
Author
David Baker is author or editor of fourteen books of poetry and criticism. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson College MFA program, and is the poetry editor of the Kenyon Review.
He is the winner of the 1995 Mary Carolyn Davies Award winner from Poetry Society of America.
Praise
“These beautifully-shaped poems are fueled by a deep human desire to rescue the transient moment and memorialize feeling, thus comforting our losses and making language suffice, letting lyric poetry stand as a permanent witness to our passing.”
—Edward Hirsch