Joseph Howard Sherman (1945 in Bridgewater,

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. He was named to the

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in 2003. Husband to Ann Sherman. Father of Rebekah Sherman Condon and Matthew Sherman. Grandfather to Autumn West, David West, and Ariel West.

Selected publications

* ''Birthday''. (New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1969). * ''Chaim the Slaughterer''. (Oberon Press, 1974). * ''

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''. (Oberon Press, 1982). * ''Thought Games/Other Voices''. (The League of Canadian Poets, 1983). * ''Translations Two'' (poems translated into German by Astrid Brunner). (Privately published, 1984). * ''Transcription (9 years after)''. (CCAG&M, 1998). * ''American Standard and Other Poems''. (Oberon Press, 1999). * ''Worried into Being: An Unfinished Alphabet''. (Oberon Press, 2005). * ''Beautiful Veins''. (Acorn Press, 2006).

References

1945 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Jewish Canadian writers People from Bridgewater, Nova Scotia 20th-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-poet-stub