John Lee
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The title for That Isn't You is inspired by a comment made by my mother concerning a video transcribed from an old eight-millimeter film. In a still shot, isolated from a single frame of the moving picture, I am riding high on my uncle John's shoulders. When Mother saw the photograph she said "that isn't you," meaning she could not imagine a day from the past when I would have had that kind of relationship with my father's elder brother, the bachelor...
3) Hired Hands
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The hired hand of these poems was a stupid man. Nowadays he would be known as one of the employable retarded. Tom was lucky enough to find work and a home with the family of John B. Lee, people who understood him. And John B. Lee was lucky to have his whole life coloured by the presence of an apparently limited man who turns out to have been a poem. John B. Lee has with great tact and without a shred of patronizing found the words to make this inarticulate...
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Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Prize Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the southwestern Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of Variations is Herb Lee, John B's grandfather (and an absolutely unforgettable curmudgeon) but the background of rural Ontario is also made palpable entirely without indulgent explanation. This grain, this rich vein that appears in book...
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Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B. may never take up his inheritance as Master of the Flock, but his understanding of sheep husbandry is woven into the woolly fabric of his work. The first poems in Rediscovered Sheep are about real modern-day shepherds and actual sheep. Then the sheep get loose. They spill out into human roles -- policeman, guest speaker,...
7) By & By
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By & By brings together two Canadian poetry icons into one book. This is, a wonderful collaboration that should never be forget.
Two sets of poems by two fine Canadian authors, a Professor Emeritus and a Poet Laureate bring Canadian culture a boost of poetic virtuosity. Both fine wordsmiths, both playing the tune, "In the Sweet By and By" about past and present. Once you have read this fine collection you will be able to say, by and by I read a fine...