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Poetry by David Baker |
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Changeable Thunder marks David Baker's emergence as a major contemporary poet. To his abiding sense of the Midwest—its politics, people, and landscapes—Baker adds a powerful historical dimension, with poems ranging from Puritan New England to the modern subway. (more …) 2001, 104 pages |
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Regional in the best sense, Baker's poems capture the universal human commerce of love and conflict enduring under the water towers and behind the storefronts of America's heartland. Working in syllabics, sonnets, couplets, and free verse, Baker can write unflinchingly about love, illness, madness, and perseverance. 1998 Ohioana Poetry Award 1998, 96 pages
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"These beautifully-shaped poems are fueled by a deep human desire to rescue the transient moment and memorialize feeling, thus comforting our losses and making language suffice, letting lyric poetry stand as a permanent witness to our passing." —Edward Hirsch Author, 1995 Mary Carolyn Davies Award winner from Poetry Society of America 1994, 80 pages
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"This music of Place, with all its varied and subtle emotional range, is what this book so marvelously captures. . . ." —Linda Pastan 1991 Ohio Poet of the Year 1991, 96 pages
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