David Baker
David Baker
American poet and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient whose poetry collections include Never-Ending Birds, Changeable Thunder, and The Truth about Small Towns. He also published several works of literary criticism.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1954
CityBangor, ME
CountryUnited States of America
takes
I will do what it takes to get through this year,
change lessons willing
He's always been provocative. He may not be willing to change with the times, and the times change - that's something we know from the lessons of history.
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The Palestinians continue to remain totally indifferent and are not preventing terror attacks.
basis necessary ongoing prevent refuses terrorists
The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
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He's back at work and quite keen to get back to his full schedule.
blocks exploited freedom increasing lifting road terrorists
by lifting road blocks and increasing freedom of movement, and the terrorists have exploited these humanitarian measures.
ended fit seems
But it seems to me that we ended up with the things that were able to fit in what had already been the tradition.
ask leading musicians possessed teaching
The instructors were often neophytes at teaching us, but they possessed the information. We used the Socratic method. We had to ask them about the things we wanted to know, but there were other musicians who were interacting with us all the time, each leading a group.
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This is a very personal interactive sport. Autographs, balls into the stands that fans can keep, the proximity of fans to the action. And we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what we can be.
ego rather realize retrospect threat
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
expected hospital
He's expected to be in the hospital for about 24 hours.
knew maybe
Before, maybe one out of 10 knew what the A.F.L. was. Now, maybe one out of 10 doesn't know.
load
If he'll load into his trailer, he'll be there.
coup institute name practice somebody sounds theory
I can't think of anything else where somebody had a theory and a practice and an institute in their name and that there was a coup going on internally over it. This sounds nasty.