The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, September 6, 1974 - Page 9
A. M. Klein-ingenious craftsman
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By BERNARD BASKIN
Poet Miriam Waddington
The Collected Poems of A. M. Klein, compiled with an Introduction by Miriam Waddington^ McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Pa-perbound Edition,
Canada doesn't love its poets. Why were the. searching, complex and luminous volumes of A.M. Klein allowed to go out of print?
■ This lamentable injus-
Kent heads division
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In 1967, he accompanied Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg and Phil Granovsky on a UJA study mission to Israel which fortified his commitment to the Jewish state. That same■ year, as chairman of the Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry, he organized the first protest rally on behalf of Rus-isiah Jews in Nathan Phillips Square.
He is a past president of the Toronto Zionist Council, immediate past president of the Jewish National Fund, a rnerft.-ber of the board of Mount. Sinai Hospital and Geriatric Care and is currently vice-pres;ident of the Jewish Immigrant Aid : Services. .
An open meeting
The Canadian Founda-. tionforlleitis and Colitis announces an open.meeting on September 11,1974 at 8:30 p.m. to take place at St. Michael's Hospital, Queen and Bond Streets. Speakers will be Dr. K.N; Jeejeebhoy. Dr. J.R. Hamilton and Dr. E.S. Prok-ipchuk. v:
Why would someone ■who has-been so identified with Jewish organizations and causes take on such a demanding job for the United Way?
"1 am a Jew and deeply concerned with .the welfare of Israel and am doing whatever I can to help in that areia," Kent" explained; "but Toronto
is my home and I love this city. Those of us who live here tend to take its greatness for granted. Unless the demands for social assistance and services are met, the
• quality of life will deteriorate and we just, can't allow that to happen. As'
, Jews we have an obliga-
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Klein was a successful Montreal lawyer and at the same time a gifted teacher and peerless editor. In. his one bid for elected office he ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in the federal election of 1949 as a candidate for the CCF. But his. passion - for social justice stemmed from the Biblical prophets rather than from the radical
teachers of his era. '
In an interview . he granted to Saturday Night about a generation ago, he commented: "Canada used to lag 20 years behind the culture of 4he rest of the world, but recently the culture^lag has beendiminished. Now It's only 10 years." His entire creative career was a struggle against tlie Canadian aspect of that lag. His first two books dealt with his pri^ vate relationship to God and his people, and rang-:' ed in landscape from the Bible to Medieval Spain to the Jewish ghettos of Montreal: In his mordant radical poemsof the "305 he. mocked the political
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In his last book of poems which won the Governor General's A-wani in 1948. Klein utilized the vantage point of the Jews in Quebec, a minority among, minorities, to examine the French Canadian envirr-onment. He titled the work The Rocking Chair, using the object as a symbol of the surrounding nation: and. Its families; its creaking noiSe the very sound,of rural Quebec: •its music moves, as if alwavs • back to a first love," The book contains ' moving evocations of Quebec m the Duplessis era and was widely prais-
ed by French Canadian critics for its sensitivity and understanding.
The passing of the years has served-to enhance his reputation. In-Joxicated with words, a Jew with a deep love and knowledge of his tradition, a Canadian who made use of the themes and subjects of- his environment, an ingenious craftsman whose images remain etchedin memory -- Klein takes his place among the enduring names in Canadian h\r erature.
Minam Waddington has arranged the poems in chronological order and written a brief but helpful introduction. What we need now is an annotated edition that will clarifv . obscure references and disentangle involvedpas-sages.
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