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David Baratier

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David Baratier's poems have appeared in hundreds of literary journals and in anthologies published by University of Iowa, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, Univ. of California, and many others. He is the editor of Pavement Saw Press, a large small-press poetry-only publisher that prints books in limited editions of 1000 to 1650 copies.
Poetry collections include: _A Run of Letters_, _The Fall Of Because_, and three different collections of Estrella’s Prophecies. He has edited over 60 poetry collections including _Hands Collected: The Poems of Simon Perchik (1949-1999)_ which was nominated for the National Book Award.
A creative non-fiction epistolary novel _In It What’s in It_ appeared from the New York City based publisher Spuyten Duyvil. The p ...more

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	In it What's in It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estrella's Prophecies 2: Dawn of the Living Fortune it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pavement Saw 5: The Backwards Gun Issue by David Baratier (Goodreads Author), David Baratier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Virgil Suárez it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estrella's Prophecies 3: The Return of the Magi 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estrella's Prophecies 1 by David Baratier (Goodreads Author), Clemente Padín it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	after Celan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pavement Saw 8: The Man Po by David Baratier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), George Bowering, Anselm Hollo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Pavement Saw #1, Spring 1994 by David Baratier (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Stroffolino, Kenneth Pobo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Zone One

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¡ POETRY ! — 22622 members — last activity Nov 01, 2025 09:58AM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 9: by Estelle

Oct 21, 2012 12:26PM

Thank you for being my friend on here. Be sure to have a good week! xx

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message 8: by Savannah

Mar 29, 2012 03:27PM

David, thank you for the friendship.

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message 7: by Christine

Jan 22, 2012 08:29AM

good morning

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message 6: by Mike

Jul 02, 2009 09:29AM

I David,
Thanks for inviting me as a friend. I see you are a prolific writer and I must checkout some of your work

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message 5: by Daniel

Jul 10, 2008 10:22AM

David, I've added A Run of Letters and your other books to my to-read list.

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message 4: by Meen

Jul 08, 2008 07:00AM

Hi David,

I'm so glad you are among my goodreads friends! I am discovering so many wonderful books from your postings!

Thanks,
Mindy

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message 3: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 12:53PM

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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message 2: by David

Dec 28, 2007 08:07AM

Jeremy-- always liked The journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen. To mention, we only publish poetry, buried to my neck in it right now. Reading for a chapbook contest, guides on http://pavementsaw.org. I just cannot read books online, not sympathetic to that concept. If I have a chance to read much outside of the press it is a good day.

be well dave

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message 1: by Jeremy

Dec 25, 2007 01:46AM

Hi David!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

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