A. M. Klein

thumb|A. M. Klein in the mid-1940s Abraham Moses "A. M." Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer. Quotes And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,When reading in these treatises some weirdMiracle, I turned a leaf and foundA 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'sbrown 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. External links Biography and works Category:Poets from Canada Category:Essayists from Canada Category:Lawyers from Canada Category:Novelists from Canada Category:Short story writers from Canada Category:Jews from Ukraine Category:Jews from Canada Category:Journalists from Quebec Category:1909 births Category:1972 deaths