Swift: New and Selected Poems BOTY_2025 They have transformed the way

They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other

the Emerald Isle dazzles from coast to coast

about the bonds we create and the difficulty of ever fully severing them

and unable to remember why

Trimble likens “Black woman joy” to indigo

Swift: New and Selected Poems BOTY_2025 They have transformed the wayA 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