Selected Poems

Collected Works of A.M. Klein

By: A.M. Klein, Seymour Mayne (Editor), Zailig Pollock (Editor), Usher Caplan (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 August 1997 | Edition Number 2

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Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, and at the same time powerfully attracted by the freedom and scope of international modernism, he sought to reconcile past and present, community and creative individuality. Whether or not he finally achieved his own high aims, it was, in his own words, 'something merely to entertain them.' The result was a body of work immensely rich and varied in tone, language, cultural resonance.

This collection of eighty-four poems offers a representative sampling of Klein's finest poetry, while taking into account the changing critical discourse of the last fifty years. Anyone interested in experiencing the full range of Klein's poetic achievement, or in understanding the complex nature of the poet, need look no further than this eminently readable volume.

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Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Portraits of a Minyan	p. 3
Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens	p. 9
Design for Mediaeval Tapestry	p. 13
Haggadah	p. 21
Plumaged Proxy	p. 24
Scribe	p. 25
A Benediction	p. 26
Would That Three Centuries Past Had Seen Us Born	p. 27
These Northern Stars Are Scarabs in My Eyes	p. 28
Now We Will Suffer Loss of Memory	p. 28
Saturday Night	p. 29
Dialogue	p. 29
Market Song	p. 30
Heirloom	p. 31
Bestiary	p. 32
Ballad of the Dancing Bear	p. 33
Baal Shem Tov	p. 44
Elijah	p. 45
Scholar	p. 46
The Venerable Bee	p. 47
Rev Owl	p. 48
Orders	p. 49
Diary of Abraham Segal, Poet	p. 49
from 'Of Castles in Spain'	p. 57
from 'Barricade Smith: His Speeches'	p. 57
In Re Solomon Warshawer	p. 61
A Psalm of Abraham, When He Hearkened to a Voice, and There Was None	p. 67
A Psalm of Abraham, When He Was Sore Pressed	p. 68
A Prayer of the Afflicted, When He Is Overwhelmed	p. 68
A Psalm of Abraham, concerning That Which He Beheld upon the Heavenly Scarp	p. 69
Grace before Poison	p. 70
To the Chief Musician, Who Played for the Dancers	p. 71
A Prayer of Abraham, against Madness	p. 72
A Psalm of Abraham of That Which Was Visited upon Him	p. 73
A Psalm to Teach Humility	p. 73
A Psalm or Prayer - Praying His Portion with Beasts	p. 74
A Psalm of Abraham, to Be Written Down and Left on the Tomb of Rashi	p. 75
A Psalm Touching Genealogy	p. 77
Ballad of the Days of the Messiah	p. 77
from The Hitleriad	p. 78
Autobiographical	p. 86
Montreal	p. 89
Les Vespasiennes	p. 92
Dentist	p. 93
Basic English	p. 94
Bread	p. 96
And in That Drowning Instant	p. 97
Sonnet Unrhymed	p. 98
Portrait of the Poet as Landscape	p. 99
The Rocking Chair	p. 105
The Provinces	p. 106
The Cripples	p. 107
The Snowshoers	p. 108
For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu	p. 109
Grain Elevator	p. 110
Universite de Montreal	p. 111
The Sugaring	p. 112
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga	p. 113
Krieghoff: Calligrammes	p. 114
Political Meeting	p. 115
Frigidaire	p. 117
Dress Manufacturer: Fisherman	p. 118
The Break-up	p. 119
Winter Night: Mount Royal	p. 120
Lookout: Mount Royal	p. 121
The Mountain	p. 122
Lone Bather	p. 123
Pastoral of the City Streets	p. 125
M. Bertrand	p. 126
Monsieur Gaston	p. 127
Doctor Drummond	p. 128
Parade of St. Jean Baptiste	p. 129
Cantabile	p. 132
Sestina on the Dialectic	p. 134
Meditation upon Survival	p. 135
Elegy	p. 136
Who Hast Fashioned	p. 141
Benedictions	p. 142
Stance of the Amidah	p. 142
Of the Making of Gragers	p. 144
Spinoza: On Man, on the Rainbow	p. 145
O Thou Seer, Go Flee Thee - Away	p. 147
A Spirit Passed before Me	p. 148
Stars Flicker and Fall in the Sky	p. 149
Notes	p. 153
Selected Bibliography	p. 189
Index of Titles	p. 191
Index of First Lines	p. 195
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