Donald W. Baker´s seventh book, is a collection of poems from war. Donald W Baker was born in Boston. In WW2 was was a navigatyor in the 382nd bomb group.
He was the Milligan Professor of English Literature and Poet in Residence at Wabash College.

Whether he writes of a teenaged boy caught up in the American Revolution, a widow remembering a lover fifty years dead, or an aging veteran watching a distant televised war in the late twentieth century, Baker´s voice is passionate, intelligent, and totally honest.

In straightforward, precise, and musical language--plain, as Frost´s language is "plain"--he views the violence of his time with a clear, cold eye. He is, as poet Roger Mitchell has called him, "one of the best war poets this country has produced."