David Baker published his first book of poetry, “Haunts,” in 1985. That title, both noun and verb, says a lot about the tone and tenor of the poetry Baker has published in the 3½ decades since, a substantial career that is generously represented in “Swift: New and Selected Poems.” Baker’s poetic universe is a hushed, melancholy and at times ghostly place, haunted both by attachments to the past and by anxiety about its increasingly uncertain future. – TROY JOLLIMORE, THE WASHINGTON POST
