A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses "A. M." Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer.

A. M. Klein in the mid-1940s

Quotes

• And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
  When reading in these treatises some weird
  Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
  A white hair fallen from my father's beard.
  • Heirloom (1982).

Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)

• Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
  who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?

• This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.

• For the tourist's
  brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
  the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.

• The animals pale, the shine of the fur is lost,
  bleached are their living bones.
  About them watch
  as through a mist, the pious prosperous ghosts.

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• Biography and works