REDISCOVERED SHEEP by John B. Lee - In the News (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

Born in Southwestern Ontario, John B. Lee was raised on a farm near the village of Highgate, Ontario. He is the Poet Laureate of Brantford & Norfolk County.

Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. Lee may never take up his inheritance as Master of the Flock, but his understanding of sheep husbandry is woven into the woolly fabric of his work. The first poems in Rediscovered Sheep are about real modern-day shepherds and actual sheep. Then the sheep get loose.

They spill out into human roles - policeman, guest speaker, ballerina - which they occupy exuberantly and sometimes with a disquieting naturalness. Rediscovered Sheep is a realistic/fantasy pastoral for contemporary times, with the true pastoral's wise innocence that never forgets the wolf.

Cover art: A retouched photograph of the author's father George E. Lee holding a ram, photographer unknown

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Rediscovered Sheep Reviewed (Antigonish Review (1990))

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