David Baker has written 13 books of poetry (Laws of the Land, 1981; Haunts, 1985; Sweet Home, Saturday Night, 1991; After the Reunion, 1994; The Truth about Small Towns, 1998; Changeable Thunder, 2001; Midwest Eclogue, 2005; Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems, 2007; Umul Alchimic, 2009; Never-Ending Birds, 2009; Scavenger Loop, 2015; Swift, 2019; Whale Fall, 2022); as well as 7 chapbooks.