About the Book 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.

About the Author Fred Cogswell
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.

Also by the Author The Vision of Fred: friend of poets / amis de poètes (2004)
Deeper Than Mind (2001)
With Vision Added (2000)
Double Question (1998)
Folds (1997)
Trouble With Light (1996)
In My Own Growing (1993)
Watching an Eagle (1991)
Black and White Tapestry (1988)