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Sometimes I wish I had visited Cuba in the 1950s and met CastroLike Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti once didI also wish I had been a teenager in the 1960s and listened to Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Joan Baez sing songs of hope and freedom to the youthAs the Cold War froze the blood of the rich and Vietnamese babies lay bleeding in napalm scorched ditchesI wish many thingsBut I am lucky to enjoy a vast collection of Bob Dylan LPs and one of my dearest friends in this world is CubanBut most critical is that this first book in the series of Cast Iron Poetry pays homageto City Lights Books Which once shared the thoughts of Ginsberg, Keroauc, Burroughs and others to millions, whose dreams were shed on subway wallsNow Cast Iron Poetry hopes to do the same for cutting edge poets in this third decade of the 21st centuryReality Cornflakes in the first in this series… many others will follow