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Variations on Herb

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  • Publisher:
    Brick Books, 1993
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Lee, John B.
    Date:
    Created
    1993
    Summary:

    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 south-western 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 after book, may well be inexhaustible; the cumulative effect certainly has few parallels in Canadian writing.

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry, Poetry
    Subject(s): Ontario | Lee, Herb, 1877-1966 | Grandfathers
    Original Publisher: London, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Brick Books Poetry