Whale Fall: Poems

by David Baker

Book Overview

Acclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place, whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier.

In the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324020636
• ISBN13: 9781324020639
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.3"