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Spring 2002 • Vol. XXIV No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Story’s Stories

Vagrant Grace by David Bottoms. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon, 1999. 95 pp. $14.00.

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson. New York: Knopf, 2000. 166 pp. $24.00.

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David Baker is the author or editor of many books of poetry and criticism. His latest collection of poems, Whale Fall, was published by W. W. Norton in July 2022. Baker taught at Kenyon 1983–84 and began a long association with The Kenyon Review then, including service for more than twenty-five years as poetry editor. He continues to curate the magazine’s annual environmental feature, “Nature’s Nature.” Baker is emeritus professor of English at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he offers two classes each spring semester.

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Representative Men

By David Baker

Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Four Way Books, 2015. 72 pp. $15.95.The Orchard Green and Every Color by Zach Savich. Omnidawn, 2016. 96 pp. $17.95. Already […]

Introduction

By David Baker

A new book of poems comes into the world more by stealth than splash. Typically a new book will sell a thousand copies, maybe wo thousand, during its first year. […]

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