Selected Poems: Collected Works of A.M. Klein

by A.M. Klein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077536
• ISBN13: 9780802077530
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher