Fought By Boys

About the Book

FOUGHT BY BOYS, Donald W. Baker´s seventh book, is a collection of poems from war.

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."

A portion of the proceeds from FOUGHT BY BOYS will benefit the Brewster Ladies´ Library in Brewster, Massachusetts.

About the Author

Donald W. Baker was born in Boston and educated by the Worcester public schools, Brown University, and the Army Air Corps. During the Second World War he served as a navigator in the 382nd Bomb Group in the American, European, and Asian theaters. For many years Milligan Professor of English Literature and Poet in Residence at Wabash College, he now lives, writes, and teaches poetry to adults in Brewster, Massachusetts.