This Glittering Republic

by Quenton Baker

Poetry collection by Quenton Baker. Baker is a poet and educator from Seattle. His current focus is the fact of blackness in American society. His work has appeared in Vinyl, Apogee, Poetry Northwest, The James Franco Review, Cura and in the anthologies Measure for An Anthology of Poetic Meters and It Was Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop . Baker has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine and is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2015-2016 Made at Hugo House fellow and the recipient of the 2016 James W. Ray Venture Project Award. He is also the author of the chapbook Diglossic in the Second America from Punch Press. This Glittering Republic is his first full-length collection.

Genres: Poetry

58 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2016

Reviews

[Greg Bem · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fantastic shatter of glass that brings a single image forward through multiple angles, lightings. Where structure stumbles, spontaneity rules here. Here, an episodic inspection of an empathy for love, the unrelenting fury, and a seized space of self respect.

[Eldan Goldenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oof. This collection pulls no punches. And is great as a result. Beautiful when it can be, ugly when it has to be, but consistently penetrating.

[Cody Stetzel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. What an incredible collection. Incredibly alive, incredibly aware.

[Lisa Keuss · Rating 4 out of 5]

"We are human only if I see myself in you and if you see yourself in me."

[Tanner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really important topics discussed, and I thoroughly enjoyed the way Baker formatted his poems. Quite a few really stuck out to me. Ultimately, not something I would say I really vibe with, just based on style alone. Objectively though, really beautifully done.

[Jo Sabath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing, songlike language that is beautiful and blunt. Clearness of meaning combined with ambiguity of circumstance makes each poem even more powerful.