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Lee, Dennis Beynon (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Lee's works try to create poems rooted in the words and activities of their everyday lives (photo by Susan Perly/Macmillan of Canada). |
 | | Lee disavows much of Kingdom of Absence (1967), a sequence of 43 sonnet variations, but some of its concerns - modern ills, alienation, emptiness, colonialism, and their effects on the imagination and even on language - are developed in later books. |
 | | Reclaiming language and liberating imagination, key parts of this process, are best begun in childhood; accordingly, Lee tries to free Canadian children from a colonial mentality by creating poems rooted in the words and activities of their everyday lives, poems which encourage free imaginative play. |
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