Provision and Perfection (on Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New And Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Stanley Plumly)

David Baker’s new book of poems, Whale Fall, will be published in July 2022 by W. W. Norton. Other poems have appeared lately in American Poetry Review, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and others. He lives in Granville, Ohio.