-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...

- The most unique set of poems I have ever read.- -Having read Dark Earth by Dean J 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...

Early poems by the author, Dean J. 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. They move the individual through themselves and beyond their own native dimensions to a world of...

The second volume in the two volume series of early poems covering between 1970 - 1980. The first volume is Measuring Gravity By Grace. Through what we might consider limitations perception alters both experience and conclusion in these poems. 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. They move the individual through themselves and beyond their own native dimensions to a world of self-evident...

A coffeehouse, cafe 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...

Prose poems from award winning author Dean J. Baker. This is Volume 1 of The Prose Poems. Volume 2 is Soliloquies Of The Horizons. Moving beyond the reach of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, these works are embodiment of those half-glimpsed thoughts and feelings casually dismissed which are noted to yield the greatest results of self-knowledge combined with a easily deeper awareness. In this magnum opus, we can see that while Sartre said 'hell is other people' and Blake was given to 'To see Heaven in a grain of sand', Dean J. Baker moves beyond these apperceptions with a full appreciation and...

No sacred cows in this long-awaited and in demand collection of satiric meditations on everything and anyone 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.

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. Satires, word play, and fun to cherish.

-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 companion volume to The Moon Worn Tides, The Prose Poems, Vol. 1. More lyrical and intense than some poetry, the perfect combination into another art form: the prose poems to satisfy the desire for prose logic, and the enlightened moment of discovery in poetry.