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Variations on Herb

Year

1993

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Brick Books

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

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