About the Book 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.

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)
Double Question (1998)
Folds (1997)
Trouble With Light (1996)
In My Own Growing (1993)
When the Right Light Shines (1992)
Watching an Eagle (1991)
Black and White Tapestry (1988)