This book has no purpose other than your pleasure. Our pleasure came in producing it. We are offering you a diversity in poetry and prose from Chalie's battle of wits with Mr. Whitehead in Chalie Casey and the Movie, by Bernadette Bellerjeau to a one legged seagull standing at attention in Survivor, by Lorraine Vail. Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1967) There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. John Ashbery, International Herald Tribune, Oct. 2, 1989
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