Baker's Bad Boys - Softcover

Baker, Dean J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496040082 ISBN 13: 9781496040084

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

“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 were done to you - if you were ever caught.And the things you wish you had done.A very contemporary approach to an adult's Stephen Leacock, and Mark Twain's ironies expressed by way of a great poet's unwavering eye for the absurd.

About this title

From the Author:

My childhood events as lived through with my brother, Terry.
Although none of these are true, Terry is still seeking therapy - it's the thought that counts.

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. 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) he has played guitar, bass, and piano in many bands and is writing more songs. 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 Vol. 1, 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, Soliloquies Of The Horizons. His awards include universities’ awards, along with several unsolicited Arts Council awards; best poems published in a year in literary journals, and The T.S. Eliot Society of Miami's Calendar Poet award. He has traveled solo through Canada, the USA, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Greece. Dean J. Baker's works show a highly disciplined, passionate and informed uniqueness. He brings to his craft a very widely read mind, fully intimate with all the great literature of the past along with a similar awareness of today's writers. "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, ("Canada's greatest poet"-Leonard Cohen), nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature. http://deanjbaker.wordpress.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Dean-J.-Baker/e/B00IC6PGQM

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1496040082
• ISBN 13: 9781496040084
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 107