The Truth about Small Towns: Poems

by David Baker

Winner of the 1998 Ohioana Poetry Award

Skilled at both extended narratives and intense, intimate lyrics, David Baker combines his talents in his fifth collection of poems. Working in syllabics, sonnets, couplets, and free verse, Baker can write unflinchingly about love, illness, madness, and perseverance.

His small towns are the burgs of the Midwest, where there is a constant tension between a future that's coming and a past that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557285179
• ISBN13: 9781557285171
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"