About the Author

Dean J. Baker is an author of more than 20 books. Composer, performer, and songwriter published in prestigious literary journals worldwide since 1973. {Jewish Dialog, Descant, Northern Light, Carleton Literary Review, The Prairie Journal, Freelance, Kola, Underpass, Canadian Review, Tabula Rasa, Waves, Rune, White Wall Review, Public Works, Salt, Anthos, Applegarth's Folly, Nexus, etc. in Canada - in USA in Aileron, Re: al, Art Times, On The Bus, Riverrun, Oxalis, NEW, Bitterroot, Bogg, Skylark, Mobius, The Amaranth Review, The New Press, Blue Light Review, The Earthwise Review, etc. and in Europe in Tween, Rivverrun, Poetry & Audience, Littack, Grapeshot, etc} Born in Toronto, Canada, to a Ukrainian/Polish father and an Irish/Scottish mother. Attended the University of Guelph, and later won their book awards, along with several unsolicited Ontario Arts Council awards, best poems published in a year in literary journals, and The T.S. Eliot Society of Miami's Calendar Poet award. Member of Socan (Society of Authors, Composers, Publishers). Author of The Herald(2010), and Baker's Bad Boys(2010), published by Mad Poet Press. His most recent works are Silence Louder Than A Train, The Mythologies Of Love, The Lost Neighborhood, an expanded and revised Baker's Bad Boys(2014-satiric stories of childhood), Dark Earth, Of Flesh Sculptures And Abandoned Love, The Eschatological Dog, Measuring Gravity By Grace (Poems 1970-1980, Vol.1), Our Geographies (Poems 1970-1980, Vol.2), The Transits Of Revelation, Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic, The Moon Worn Tides, The Prose Poems, Vol. 1, Soliloquies Of The Horizon, The Prose Poems, Vol. 2, Poetry & How It Gets That Way, In Riparian Fields, Tormenting The Monkey, Provenances And Paroles, Cousin Harold's Adventures In The Real World, The Poetry Hotel, The Lost Canadian, Early Selected Poems, Vol. 1, The Lost Canadian, Poems Selected, Vol. 2., Blood Upon The Moon, Celestial Migrations In The Empire, Of The Dominions Unleavened, All These Being Hinterlands. Winner of universities' awards, several unsolicited Arts Council awards; best poems published in a year in literary journals, The T.S. Eliot Society of Miami's Calendar Poet award. He also edited two books by poet Joe Rosenblatt. "Dean is a combination of thought and torment.. he might produce a collection that could astound us all." - Irving Layton http: //deanjbaker.wordpress.com/ https: //www.amazon.com/Dean-J.-Baker/e/B00IC6PGQM