Swift: New and Selected Poems BOTY_2025 the Emerald Isle dazzles from

the Emerald Isle dazzles from coast to coast

From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a “Native American ghost town” but actually found a fully realized society

and the end of the world

Six months later

Swift: New and Selected Poems BOTY_2025 the Emerald Isle dazzles fromA sweeping achievement from a poet whose "rhythms are as alive to the roll and tang of syllables on the tongue as they are to the circulation of blood and sap" (Rosanna Warren, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize citation). David Baker, acclaimed for his combination of "visionary scope" (Gettysburg Review) and "emotional intensity" (Georgia Review), is one of contemporary poetry's most gifted lyric poets. In Swift, he gathers poems from eight