Baker (Dec '10): "The world has enough poetry books written solely for the author's outlet, and I dare not burden the public... More > with another. 'Utopians' is something different — no mere anthology of musings and private-feelings-made-public — but the cataclysmic result of when words attending Math and Art class, the Renaissance Fair, Space Camp, church and the local convenience-store haunts finally meet in the middle to duke it out. I wrote the book I couldn't find anywhere else: chapters filled with stanzas that could redefine thought processes, pages that made liquids into gases and made poetry into matter more solid than diamond. Attack these poems, courageous reader, or they will surely draw first blood." At 360 pages, this thick book of nearly 200 previously unreleased poems is certainly worth the purchase. < Less

The contents of this book span 10 years of the author's life — Fall 2005: "Through these 63 poems, I share with the world... More > a careful articulation of my pleasures and my pains, my search for love, my experiences with God, my ruminations on life's mysteries and even a bit of my attempts to break out of your typical poetic devices. There's plenty of experimentation and plenty of heart, from one sincere 22-year-old to you, the reader. I hope you find it inspirational and intriguing. It was a joy to put this together for you." < Less

Comprising 124 new poems from Brian Daniel Baker, "Water in a Wine Glass" chronicles the author's journey through personal... More > crisis, chronologically (like a journal), but without dwelling stagnantly on pain. "Water in a Wine Glass" will amuse, bemuse and astonish the reader with experimental, but wholly heartfelt, lines of poetry — sometimes playing with words, other times mangling them! If you consider yourself a friend of words, you will feel both their joys and their dismay as you read.

Buy this book. You won't be disappointed. < Less

Baker (Dec '10): "The world has enough poetry books written solely for the author's outlet, and I dare not burden the public... More > with another. 'Utopians' is something different — no mere anthology of musings and private-feelings-made-public — but the cataclysmic result of when words attending Math and Art class, the Renaissance Fair, Space Camp, church and the local convenience-store haunts finally meet in the middle to duke it out. I wrote the book I couldn't find anywhere else: chapters filled with stanzas that could redefine thought processes, pages that made liquids into gases and made poetry into matter more solid than diamond. Attack these poems, courageous reader, or they will surely draw first blood." At 360 pages, this thick book of nearly 200 previously unreleased poems is certainly worth the purchase. < Less

Comprising 124 new poems from Brian Daniel Baker, "Water in a Wine Glass" chronicles the author's journey through personal... More > crisis, chronologically (like a journal), but without dwelling stagnantly on pain. "Water in a Wine Glass" will amuse, bemuse and astonish the reader with experimental, but wholly heartfelt, lines of poetry — sometimes playing with words, other times mangling them! If you consider yourself a friend of words, you will feel both their joys and their dismay as you read.

Buy this book. You won't be disappointed. < Less

The contents of this book span 10 years of the author's life — Fall 2005: "Through these 63 poems, I share with the world... More > a careful articulation of my pleasures and my pains, my search for love, my experiences with God, my ruminations on life's mysteries and even a bit of my attempts to break out of your typical poetic devices. There's plenty of experimentation and plenty of heart, from one sincere 22-year-old to you, the reader. I hope you find it inspirational and intriguing. It was a joy to put this together for you." < Less