David Baker

David Baker is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Midwest Eclogue (Norton, 2005), and two critical works, including Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (Arkansas, 2000). He is the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of creative writing at Denison University and poetry editor of Kenyon Review.

Published in VQR

• "I'm Nobody": Lyric Poetry and the Problem of People, Winter 2007
• Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief, Spring 2005
• Late Pastoral, Winter 2004
• Afterwards, Winter 2004
• The Second Person, Winter 1998
• Long Summer Twilight, Winter 1998