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"Fantastic read. I don't want to say more to avoid giving anything away. Get it, you wont regret it."Your own gross childhood revealed...Baker's Bad Boys - sarcastic and satirical, the revised, expanded edition.The author prefers farting on people secretly and thus has not changed much, but that means there is room for hope. ...an early appreciation.. " Fantastic read. I don't want to say more to avoid giving anything away. Get it, you wont regret it. "With a Preface by Mr.NoManners, and a special intro by the author.Those adventures you enjoyed as a child, and those events that were done to you - if you were ever caught.And the things you wish you had done.A very contemporary approach to an adult's Stephen Leacock, and Mark Twain's ironies expressed by way of a great poet's unwavering eye for the absurd.

"A bold and refreshing approach to modern poetry, one that breaks the rules when necessary and yet conforms when it suites. Highly recommended...""If all the reader is looking for in a poetry anthology are the poetic ramblings of someone trying to impress with their command of language or a gently rolling stream of consciousness then this probably isn't it; but for poignant and thought provoking insight and new ideas, one would be hard pressed to do better than Dean J. Baker's 'Silence Louder Than A Train.'"Poetry and prose poems of a passionate & intense originality which transcends the boundaries of the everyday. Words that speak, sing, and witness to convey us beyond the poems themselves to allow fresh discovery with each reading.from an early review.. " for poignant and thought provoking insight and new ideas, one would be hard pressed to do better than Dean J. Baker's 'Silence Louder Than A Train.'Highly recommended.."

"This author's mastery in posing challenging questions by default is a rare skill. A superb set of poems I would recommend to any potential reader of modern poetry seeking out the works of a poet, who has no fear; who never pulls a punch or flinches from one circumstance has thrown his way. He simply commits the event to words. Those in or out of 'love' will find much to identify with here."There are the general accepted thoughts of love and its antecedents, and then there are these fine poems which give us through their ironic delight in what might be oppressing another appreciation for both poetry and the messages conveyed through its medium.Not your parents, or their parents' poetry, these works, distilling through a loving awareness of great literature and its medium, the newer dimensions not previously available through such manner of thoughts and expression.As with his previous books, Silence Louder Than A Train, and The Lost Neighborhood - along with such masterworks as Dark Earth, The Eschatological Dog, the volumes of early poetry in Measuring Gravity By Grace, and Our Geographies, Dean Baker's poetry succeeds beyond hope in transcending the limits of abstract poetry (which it is not), and conventional literature. Something new, different, and great."

"Required reading for anyone wanting to learn about wit, wordplay, and good, gritty writing in general. Dean Baker knows how to turn a phrase upside down and kick it full strength out the door. Five stars, and here's to many more...""What more powerful a statement can a poet express than "the word is not the thing," one of Baker's titles. This alone points to the depth of the hand that scribes words that point, words that depict, words that make real, what we all feel."Poetry and prose poems of a passionate & intense originality which transcends the boundaries of the everyday. Words that speak, sing, and witness to convey us beyond the poems themselves to allow fresh discovery with each reading.The 'neighborhood' is what we carry. The residences are our experience. The journey is what we make of each, together and individually.The poems transcend and convey the ability to do so in poetry and beyond, always renewing ourselves through works of this nature.from an early review "Required reading for anyone wanting to learn about wit, wordplay, and good, gritty writing in general. Dean Baker knows how to turn a phrase upside down and kick it full strength out the door. Five stars, and here's to many more... "

"The most unique set of poems I have ever read." Having read Dark Earth by Dean Baker my first reaction is WOW. This was written for me. His poetry speaks to me deep down in my soul.""What I admire is Dean's pulling out all the stops, no sublime romanticist here; no, instead he's taken notes from the underbelly of those masters of the macabre and grotesque." "Dean is a true comic poet as well, full of those sly interventions and evasions, slights of self, incriminations and elisions... He's the kind of poet that gets under your skin and stays there like a song in some dark noir alley that sings to you of love and death suckled on good old home-grown truth. Through his exceptional and distinctive poems and prose poems you will be fully engaged in an ongoing relationship which you will find irreplaceable, and delightful in their enrichening influence. His poetry allows for re-reading and renewed understanding through the work and its in-depth nuances in the only standing form of active privacy extant...from an early review... "The key to Dean's art is its unique subtle narration of certain moments that are never revealed in the full natural disclosure of facts, but are rather revealed more subtly in the voicing of certain affective relations between memory and mind in this ongoing inquisition with the sordidness of our unlived lives." http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.com

"Delightful? A few poems are. Poignant they all remain.With his one-of-a-kind poetry style, Dean trains his unique eye on the end of the world, or of humankind, death, the destiny of humanity...There is no escape like reading What about reading about what one may never escape from? Dean's words took me into that darkening day. He used the color of meaning to paint the way. Yet, I never felt like running from it. I wanted to remain, to hear what the poet, writer, musician had to say about the decay, and more.Dean's words ring true, even if they bite you. Might as well face the music he presents, it feels healthy. Be tempted It is a book worth reading."

The first volume in the two-volume series of early poems covering between 1970 - 1980. Early poems by the author, Dean Baker. The ability to transcend the weight of the world through the appreciation of limitations transformed through perception is most evident in these poems.Inspirational shorter poems of immediacy and lasting insights.These are not the poems of our grandfathers or grandmothers, not even of the nearest generation.These poems are evidence of the future, boundaries necessarily transcended in order to become more than the trappings of contemporary physicality moving the individual beyond their own native dimensions to a world of self-evident grace residing within as the originating point for every understanding and knowledge of the means to alter our worlds.Poetry is the song and the expression of our sorrow and joys, minute and finite, that allow that greater feeling and comprehension of what it is we can hope to achieve and experience without turning aside, resorting to or giving in to mechanisms used to make our way through passages in the world.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.co

The second volume in the two-volume series of early poems covering between 1970 - 1980. Early poems by the author, Dean Baker. The ability to transcend the weight of the world through the appreciation of limitations transformed through perception is most evident in these poems. Inspirational shorter poems of immediacy and lasting insights. These are not the poems of our grandfathers or grandmothers, not even of the nearest generation.These poems are evidence of the future, boundaries necessarily transcended in order to become more than the trappings of contemporary physicality moving the individual beyond their own native dimensions to a world of self-evident grace residing within as the originating point for every understanding and knowledge of the means to alter our worlds.Poetry is the song and the expression of our sorrow and joys, minute and finite, that allow that greater feeling and comprehension of what it is we can hope to achieve and experience without turning aside, resorting to or giving in to mechanisms used to make our way through passages in the world.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.co

Prose poems by Dean Baker. The perfect mixture of poetry and prose combining to create a new form of both.Challenging habitual thoughts and perception, through the grace and joy of these prose poems, an inherent delight in the work conveys itself to the reader.Accepted forms of expression which tend to either the linear, abstract or the merely physical, without irony or grace, we are taken by purposeful expressions which allude to a consciousness not necessarily found through distended forms foreign to our everyday, but through the poetry gathered from such things.The work exhibits delight beyond any narrowly prescribed methods of thought and awareness in these bold frontiers of literature, and poetry.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.com

A coffeehouse, caf as society..."Acid wit, deep insight, humor, powerful metaphor, intelligence.... A smooth ride on a bumpy road, with side trips into unseen hollows of the human experience.... What else do you need to know? An excellent read, worth sharing far and wide... More, please...."Prose poems that are a paean to Musicians, Writers, Artists, & Wingnuts: to folksingers, the troubled and disturbed, open mic nights everywhere.The poet made it out alive from Fat Albert's.A satiric, and loving, tribute to open mic nights everywhere, whether in coffeehouses, on campus, or in living-rooms of the desperately demented.The ironies and distinctions that make for unintended humor and discreet or not so discreet satire, as well as the tenderness evoked through an awareness of the frailties and too-human vulnerabilities of the denizens of Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic.While tending towards a metaphor of the world and entertainment as just such a clinic for the disturbed, there is evidence of the mastery of the writer in these expressions of the unconventional, and the absurd, which allows us entry to our own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of the world at large as one bigger Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic.

The Moon Worn Tides, The Prose Poems Vol. 1, and Soliloquies Of The Horizons, The Prose Poems, Vol. 2, consist of the contents of The Transits Of Revelation edited, along with some newer prose poems added.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.co

The latest poetry by acclaimed poet and author Dean Baker.Poems commingling mind, body and soul - riparian zones interfacing with people, habitats, and future territories, spiritually and physically: how they interact and influence each other.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.co

No sacred cows in this long-awaited and in demand collection of satiric meditations on everything and everyone from politics, family, social issues, cultural and individual misconceptions...being that the 'monkey' loves to torment itself with things it already knows and enjoys the disconnect between what it knows and refuses to learn, repeatedly.Meditations on various dilemmas confronting any creature arriving on the social doorstep are here committed for your enjoyment by the poet known in some circles - the noose gets tighter - as Dr. Dean, reasons for which become apparent when reading the book.Any resemblance between the author and either the tales within or the back photograph are purely identical.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.co

Latest contemporary poetry by acclaimed poet and author Dean Baker. Poetry of origins and songs of discovery.

Unique, one-of-a-kind guaranteed laugh out loud tales of a skewed world view held dear by many whose inner child is alive and well....about Cousin Harold's Adventures In The Real World, "I have never read anything like this It's amazing... excruciating - wonderful "http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.com

"Beautiful, brilliant and brutal, and ever truthful. "Intense early poems of Dean J. Baker. Some previously published in worldwide academic and literary journals, and several of his prior books. Poetry of necessity: unique combinations of thought, emotion, and art. Several poems have been revised for inclusion in this first volume of his Selected Poems. Further volumes will be forthcoming.

The Moon Worn Tides, The Prose Poems Vol. 1, and Soliloquies Of The Horizons, The Prose Poems, Vol. 2, consist of the contents of The Transits Of Revelation edited, along with some newer prose poems added.http: //deanbakerpoetryandsongs.comProse poems by Dean Baker. The perfect mixture of poetry and prose combining to create a new form of both.Challenging habitual thoughts and perception, through the grace and joy of these prose poems, an inherent delight in the work conveys itself.Accepted forms of expression which tend to either the linear, abstract or the merely physical, without irony or grace, we are taken by purposeful expressions which allude to a consciousness not necessarily found through distended forms foreign to our everyday, but through the poetry gathered from such things The work exhibits delight beyond any narrowly prescribed methods of thought and awareness in these bold frontiers of literature, and poetry

These poems mark a radical departure from previous work in tone, scope, and vision. Being a passionate reader this book is what I'd hope to find to satisfy my need for historical depth, an answering quality to contemporary issues, and the innovative artistry to bring it all together in an immediacy making something new with each poem by the breadth of the book: 'the best new book of poetry in ages...' ''if any book could make you understand, love and want poetry, this is the one''...this book will awaken you to yourself...' 'OWN this book...''don't miss this book... you will love it. ''Work which satisfies, answers, constantly and consistently repays each and every reading with a refreshing understanding that surpasses the words written on the page.

Dean Baker is a poet, songwriter, and performer. His lyric gift is fierce, contemporary, and classic. These poems mark a radical departure from previous work in tone, scope, and vision. At the conjunction of the secular and the spiritual, ALL THESE BEING HINTERLANDS is a companion volume to CELESTIAL MIGRATIONS IN THE EMPIRE.