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By exploring the subtle, elaborate beauty of the natural world, Shadow Light’s poems serve as paths that lead to the multiple ways in which the human dynamic finds universal expression in the landscape on a tumultuous planet.

About the Author

Warren Baker hangs onto the tops of maple trees pitching in a stiff south wind, navigates the crags and valleys of black locust bark, and sits in the globe of a raindrop shuddering at the end of a pine needle. He loves Corgis, cats and gardening. Warren ran a poultry farm in Vermont and drove flatbeds laden with apples out of orchards in the rolling hills of south-central Pennsylvania. He worked in factories and warehouses. He sold woodstoves. He was a radio station copywriter and operations manager. As a community newspaper editor, Warren won awards from the Vermont Press Association for editorial writing. He earned an MFA from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine. Warren retired as a professor and former director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College. He writes novels and plays. He lives with Sharon Coleman, his wife, in Burlington.