Never-Ending Birds: Poems

ISBN: 0393070182

Author: Baker, David

Condition: New

The most expansive and moving poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright.-Marilyn Hacker 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:Thats us pointing to the clouds. Those are cloudsof 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, anytwo of us, one of those just endearments.Apt clarities. Kiss on the lips of hope.