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Dean J. Baker

Come to my new blogs - email me for the urls - .. hmmm in 3 months almost the sdame # of views

About Me


Member of Socan, have performed my songs and poems in Toronto and California, with tapes available; edited/co-wrote a children's book for Joe Rosenblatt; recipient of 2 unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards; originated 'Poet's Corner' on Q107FM where I did live readings of my poems and prose poems; letters between myself and Irving Layton (who taught Leonard Cohen, and was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for literature) on file at Concordia University for study by Honors' Graduate students; have over 400 poems and prose poems published since 1972 in over 130 literary publications in Canada, the USA, England, Australia, New Zealand, etc., such as Descant, Carleton Literary Review, Poetry WLU, The Prairie Journal, Freelance, Nexus, Bitterroot, Oxalis, Bogg, Aileron, RE:AL, Art Times, Pegasus, Impetus, On The Bus, and many others. More have been published in newspapers, magazines, online and in anthologies, recorded and paper.
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My Interests

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Music:

Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, rock, classical, Irish and otherwise Celtic
play guitar, piano, bass

Books:

Henry Miller, ... classics.. Shakespeare's sonnets, Irving Layton's poems, Allen Ginsberg's America....Elmore Leonard

Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Robert Lowell, etc etc etc etc

everyone should read: The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker

Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison

Heroes:

my father, my brother

My Blog

Touch Your Shirt

Touch Your ShirtBet I can, without touchingThose lovely breastsBet you $5 AgainAnd againOops I loseCheck -MateWe win©Dean Baker...
Posted by Dean Baker on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:36:00 PST

Souvenir

SouvenirFinally, you have your life;and yourself,the empty house and petsSome memories  not a few regrets,or disguised emotions, maskinghow you might have feltIf you'd givehalf the chance to the even...
Posted by Dean Baker on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:29:00 PST

The Enigma Of Love

The Enigma Of LoveI love you and I always will.You're beautiful.Is that what you want? Forme to be telling lies, orHave I, as usual,misunderstood; and erring,not chosen,those niceties you most cherish...
Posted by Dean Baker on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:25:00 PST

With You

With YouI don't belong on this lost highway,threatening to shimmy into the hillswhen my every thought's of you  I go throughthe motions, enjoy a time or twoStill all my senses call me back,even those...
Posted by Dean Baker on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:20:00 PST

OTHER URLS FOR NEW BLOGS

are available to those who ask, if they intend to comment on my blogsand only if they are amongst those who regularly commentif you get a blog and make a link to me, I will do the same- not simply if ...
Posted by Dean Baker on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:47:00 PST

Day Travel with my Father

Day Travel with my Fatherfor my father"To see Heaven in a grain of sand"Went to my cottage the other day, just for the day, and it was well worth the time, even driving more than the few hours actuall...
Posted by Dean Baker on Mon, 28 May 2007 06:43:00 PST

Shall I

Shall IShall I make love to you, reach withinThe body of that instrument; test the strings,And break the melodies unsung by name, orPlace, which linger now beneath the silencesYou say I teach, when re...
Posted by Dean Baker on Fri, 25 May 2007 05:46:00 PST

OTHER BLOGS, MySpace the new Trailer Park of Blogs

just want to encourage people to go to my other blogs as there is a more concentrated audience for literary efforts there, and they are spam free as well, with comments tending more toward the literar...
Posted by Dean Baker on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:42:00 PST

Between Those Lips

Between Those LipsWe know what passes, but do I haveTo lick, and first scent the labial blissThat arises, and folds on me when I passBetween the soft wet dream that holds me Tight, between you and I; ...
Posted by Dean Baker on Sun, 20 May 2007 06:38:00 PST

Tableau

Tableau I never used to be so seriousYou took it, when you did, lightly; and let me dream in your lap, nuzzle the sunset at your breastsDid you not think I meant to leave and write this: from the safe...
Posted by Dean Baker on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:43:00 PST