Scavenger Loop Poems Author:David Baker From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.This masterful new work by ?the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright? (Marilyn Hacker) is a layered natural history of David Baker?s beloved Midwest, tracing the comple... more »x history of human habitation, from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and the mysterious habitats of the heart. Baker pushes to new stylistic heights here, moving between unity and disorder, working at times in sustained narratives, at other times in fragments and erasures.?Heaven?