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Poems by Fred Cogswell

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The Purest Pleasure

The purest pleasure
known to me is love, through pain
be in the giving.

So great a treasure,
pearl formed, on a cosmic plane
must seed all-living.

Other Borealis Press titles by Fred Cogswell:

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)
When the Right Light Shines (1992)
Watching An Eagle (1991)
Black and White Tapestry (1989)
The Best Notes Merge (1988)

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 Canadian Poet and critic, and as a translator, including The Complete Poems of Emile Nelligan. His own poetry has been much published and translated abroad.

Reviews

"With the true insight of a major poet, Cogswell observes ... the subtle power of artistic form," and his translations are also "an art ... effective contributions to his own book and to the canon of poetry in English."

Liliane Welch, The Cormorant, 13, ii, 1997

"These poems are life lessons of an observant eye ... Cogswell uses language gently as if handling a fragile, precious thing ... an underlaying thankfulness and joyfulness ... sometimes bubbles passionately to the surface ... poems with the awareness of the poet behind them."

Penny Ferguson, Pottersfield Portfolio, Vol. 18 no. 1, 1997

"Some of these poems feel like meditations. They are positive and life-affirming, the work of a mature writer with wisdom and perspective ... who finds resemblances and patterns and meanings in the world and shares them with us."

Carol Malyon, The Fiddlehead, 194, Winter, 1997

"If it is possible to credit one person with creating the genre of Maritime Literature, Fred Cogswell would be that person ... a mentor for aspiring authors throughout Atlantic Canada and across the country."

Alison Hughes, The New Brunswick Reader, March 27, 1998.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Cogswell, Fred, 1917 -
  With vision added

Poems.
ISBN 0-88887-847-8 (bound) - ISBN 0-88887-845-1 (pbk.)

  I. Title.

PS8555.03W482000   C811.´54   C99-901566-4
PR9199.3.C64W48 2000

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