A. M. Klein

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 weird Miracle, I turned a leaf and found A 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's brown 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.