When the Right Light Shines, poems by Fred Cogswell

When the Right Light Shines

74 pages

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ISBN 0-88887-124-4
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ISBN 0-88887-122-8

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Query for a Machine Age

The frail organic world from seed to bloom
Puts a rich variety on display,
While steel perfection in machines has room
For but one change alone - and that´s decay.

Why should we standardize our messy ways
To calm routines and try to treat our hearts
(As specialists would have us do these days)
Like subservient, replaceable parts?

Unless (as William Blake sometimes expressed
Before such logic human minds controlled)
The victims of Urizen do not rest
Till they at last become what they behold.

Other Borealis Press titles by Fred Cogswell:

With Vision Added (2000)
A Double Question (1999)
Folds (1997)
The Trouble With Light (1996)
As I See It (1994)
In My Own Growing (1993)
In Praise of Older Music (1992)
Watching An Eagle (1991)
Black and White Tapestry (1989)
The Best Notes Merge (1988)

About the Author

Recently awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English-language literature by the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, Fred Cogswell is widely known as once editor of The Fiddlehead and publisher of Fiddlehead Poetry Books, as a leading critic, and a translator, including The Complete Poems Emile Nelligan. His own poetry has been much published and translated abroad.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cogswell, Fred, 1917 -
When the right light shines

ISBN 0-88887-122-8 (bound) - ISBN 0-88887-124-4 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS8555.O3W43 1991 C811´.54 C92-090640-8
PR9199.3.C64W43 1991

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