Michael Baker, once from Ohio, now New Jersey, is an award winning poet, a teacher of university composition classes, a frequent contributor to Trouser Press and Zisk, and a writer of extended Perfect Sound Forever essays on The Kinks, Cleveland in the 1970s, and Alex Chilton. He is working on essays about Rita Dove, Family, John Ashbery, and the use of doorways in the films of John Ford. He has a perfect son.
David Ackles : The Golden Horse Is In Hell: David Ackles' Theatre of Melancholy
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, May 2006
Big Star : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Big Star : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton, Part 2
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Box Tops, The : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Box Tops, The : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton, Part 2
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Alex Chilton : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Alex Chilton : The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton, Part 2
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
Human Switchboard : Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 3
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
Kinks, The : The Kinks Face To Face with 1966: Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2004
Pagans, The : Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 3
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
Pere Ubu : Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
Pere Ubu : Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 2
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
Raspberries, The : Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
Sex Pistols, The : Children In The Mire: A Reading Of Bangs, Marcus And The Sex Pistols, part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
Sex Pistols, The : Children in the Mire: Bangs, Marcus, and the Sex Pistols, Part II – Polly
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005