LEE, JOHN B. — Hired Hands

London, ON, Canada: Brick Books, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0919626300. Illustrated by Binette, Michel. 91 pages. Runner-up for the People's Poetry Award in 1987. The hired hand of these poems and the prose narrative threaded through them, was a stupid man. Today he would be categorized among the barely employable mentally challenged. He was lucky enough to find work and a home with the family of John B. Lee, people who understood and accepted him. And John Lee was lucky to have his whole live coloured by the presence of this apparently limited man who turns out to have been a poem. John Lee has with great tact and without a shred of patronizing found the words to make this inarticulate man live in the portrait that is this book. Author lives in Brantford, Ontario.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Lee, John B. Hired Hands Brick Books Michel Binette 91 pages. Copyright 1992. Runner-up for the People's Poetry Award in 1987. The hired hand of these poems and the prose narrative threaded through them, was a stupid man. Today he would be categorized. Very Good .