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Literature Ed Baker Biography Ed Baker is an artist and poet who resides in Takoma Park, Md. He is 67. Artist Statement I (mostly) just watch and wait for something to happen; and, something always does.  in the case of Neighbor ... well I had not written a single thing between 1978 and 1998 the ... ALL OF A SUDDEN, POW!  out my window … seen …   'this'  goddess ...  my (next-door) neighbor!   like,  getting woke-up  instantaneously all of a sudden goddess, kama, 'me', 'her', poems, images, art  e v e r y w h e r e… and I realized (not so much the "things" produced.. but, that, I, was, (am), "them"… so, inside and outside became   just as it is,    s  a  m  e  …    no need to differentiate now, then, or later...  add a little western angst  (Freud, Rilke, Celan, Sartre, etc) and my own brand of zen/religion/attitude a dash of my humour... and 67 years of my own experiences/memories a sprinkle of wanton-desire  then POWW ... we (I) get long poems and non-stop images: Neighbor G oo dnight Stone Girl Wild Orchid full moon Things Just Come Through Restoration Poems al 1998–2008 priorly  (1970–1978): Song of chin Points/Counterpoints Okeanos Rhoos The City Re:circulation Hexapoems 1 Hexapoems 2 Hexapoems 3 so,  there are (also) 10,000 poems                       10,000 haiku                       10,000 water colors (mostly “her”/goddesses)                          623  3-d pieces below is a piece just done this morning [12/17/2008] (three goddess "in the wind"): Click here to see more of Ed's artwork! NEW!!! Ed’s website: http://edbaker.maikosoft.com  His work also appears in Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms. Interviews with Ed: http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/11/at-border-of-silver-and-tacky.html Ed's  UMA|book of sketches of the goddess in Sarojini Satoo's novel The Dark Abode: http://www.redroom.com/publishedwork/the-dark-abode and some questions that he answers at bottom of this article: http://www.redroom.com/blog/sarojini-sahoo/conversation-ed-baker Books Published: Butcher of Oxen (Doxie Press, 1972) The City (Red Ochre Press, 1972) Song of Chin (draft #12) (tel let, 2005) Wild Orchid w/sumi-e by Fay Chin (tel let, 2002) Things Just Come Through (Red Ochre Press, 2005) Twenty Four Ways of Seeing w/sumi-e by Fay Chin (tel let, 2002) Okeanos Rhoos (Johns Hopkins, 1972) RESTORATION LETTERS: correspondence 1972–1978 (Cid Corman–Ed Baker) RESTORATION POEMS: 1972–2007 (Country Valley Press, 2008) countless poems published in: Athanor Cold Spring Journal Flute Alaph Hummingbird South x Southeast Modern Haiku Odyessus haigaonline PoetryBridge Moonset etc. Moonset Literary Newspaper Click below for Ed's work HEXAPOEMS II  (.pdf)  Neighbors 1: Arousal (.pdf) Neighbors 2: Calling You (.pdf) Neighbors 3: Shades (.pdf) Neighbors 4: FU:SION (.pdf) Neighbors 5: Intersection (.pdf) Neighbors 6: Afterwards (.pdf)