David Baker is an occasional poet. Although he spent much of his life working as a lawyer, his fascination with images and conveying feelings through words often diverted him from practicing law.* At 78, he doesn’t have much of a portfolio to share. He published a few poems in a Unitarian congregation’s collection of member poems, Rooted in Verse (2003), but most poems are scattered in his computer’s directories and random files. Born in Canada and schooled there through the 8th grade, his family emigrated to the U.S. in the early 50s. He graduated from Monteith College at Wayne State University in Detroit with a PhB in 1966 and received his JD from Ohio State University in 1975. He enjoys e.e. cumings, W.D. Snodgrass, from whom he took a class at Wayne State, Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Whitman, and Hayden Carruth.
Poems here are mine or the work of friends whose names appear with their work.
* “Words and the use of language were my stock-in-trade as a lawyer and I loved my work. Poetry is a way of taking the rhythm and the color of language and setting them to music. With poetry, I take my love of language and my love of music into the world of play.”
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