Dean Baker
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I am totally and completely politically incorrect and I love it
All These Poems
All the poems, the notes,
songs shown and silent for now;
every single line and inspiration
muddled or divine are simply
words known and rearranged
Vowels conjugated and held
softly and often in my throat, my love
each one a wonder and surprise
each my call to you:
my song, my hallelujah of your name
©Dean Baker
Lived in England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, NYCity, California...
Polish/Ukrainian/Russian/Irish/Scottish background
DEAN J. BAKER was born in Toronto, divides his time between Toronto, countryside Ontario towns in that area of land affectionately known as 'Cowshit Valley', and a small coastal city in California. Member of Socan, has performed his 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 he did live readings of his poems and prose poems; letters between himself 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; has over 300 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.
