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1909–1972 Canada
Abraham Moses "A. M." Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer.
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Also known as: Abraham Moses Klein, Klein, A. M., Klein, A.M.
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Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)
For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)
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.
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)
This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)
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)