Posthumous Noon

by Aaron Baker

Posthumous Noon was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Of the collection, Hirshfield " Posthumous Noon is a book of grief and its bearing. It is also a book of language's largess and leaping--as all true poem-volumes must be--and a book of the treasure house of the of largemouth bass; of the eros of moths and of humans; of cities and fields, stories and waters. It is a book holding as well many kinds of the migration of the body in illness, of love's witness, of souls, of creatures, of aftermath. In word, music, and image, Aaron Baker confirms his book title's even amid loss's darkness, the full dimensions of light cannot be kept from this world."

72 pages, Paperback

Published March 18, 2018

About the author

Aaron Baker is the author of three books of poetry: American Experiment: A Poem, Posthumous Noon, and Mission Work.

From Graham, Washington, he's lived in Papua New Guinea, Mexico, and Germany, and currently divides his time between Tucson and Chicago, where he's a Professor of English and directs the Creative Writing Program at Loyola University Chicago.

His awards include the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, the Breadloaf/Bakeless Prize (selected by Stanley Plumly) and the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize (selected by Jane Hirshfield).