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Silence Louder Than A Train
New poetry with a few prose poems by the author The Herald, and Baker's Bad Boys
- GenresPoetry
93 pages, Paperback
First published February 7, 2014
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Dean Baker
61 books140 followershttps://deanbakerpoetryandsongs.com
"Dean is a combination of thought and torment that has made him write more than a baker's dozen of fine poems.. he might produce a collection that could astound us all." - Irving Layton
Irving Layton is one of Canada's foremost poets, nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature; teacher, friend and mentor to Leonard Cohen, and the man to whom Leonard dedicated his latest book.
My poetry has appeared in hundreds of literature magazines world wide, recorded, and online.
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April 2, 2014
The title alone is enough to pique the reader's interest. Who among us cannot remember a time when silence alone didn't ring in our ears as loud as thunder?
This anthology by Dean J. Baker is as diverse in style as it is in its subject matter. One of the aspects I liked most was the complete absence of predictability; written in two parts, the author writes of love and its tribulations, of the noble and often not-so-noble aspects of the human condition, of the turmoil of the creative process, and of his views and opinions of life and the people and society about him.
In terms of style, in some of the poems there is only the slightest and almost imperceptible homage to rhyme and alliteration, and yet it's there nonetheless. In others he simply allows the words themselves to speak their meaning, almost in seeming abandonment of traditional poetic verse and structure - and still it works.
If all the reader is looking for in a poetry anthology are the poetic ramblings of someone trying to impress with their command of language or a gently rolling stream of consciousness then this probably isn't it; but for poignant and thought provoking insight and new ideas, one would be hard pressed to do better than Dean J. Baker's 'Louder Than A Train.'
A bold and refreshing approach to modern poetry, one that break the rules when necessary and yet conforms when it suites. Highly recommended...
This anthology by Dean J. Baker is as diverse in style as it is in its subject matter. One of the aspects I liked most was the complete absence of predictability; written in two parts, the author writes of love and its tribulations, of the noble and often not-so-noble aspects of the human condition, of the turmoil of the creative process, and of his views and opinions of life and the people and society about him.
In terms of style, in some of the poems there is only the slightest and almost imperceptible homage to rhyme and alliteration, and yet it's there nonetheless. In others he simply allows the words themselves to speak their meaning, almost in seeming abandonment of traditional poetic verse and structure - and still it works.
If all the reader is looking for in a poetry anthology are the poetic ramblings of someone trying to impress with their command of language or a gently rolling stream of consciousness then this probably isn't it; but for poignant and thought provoking insight and new ideas, one would be hard pressed to do better than Dean J. Baker's 'Louder Than A Train.'
A bold and refreshing approach to modern poetry, one that break the rules when necessary and yet conforms when it suites. Highly recommended...
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