Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains (Poetry) - Softcover

Whyte, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889952086 ISBN 13: 9780889952089

Publisher: Red Deer Press, 2002

Synopsis

"Post-modernism was nice while it lasted, I believe. Thank goodness it's over."

So wrote Jon Whyte, a contrarian and poet ahead of his time.

From the late 1960s to his untimely death in 1992, Banff's Jon Whyte was a guiding spirit among those who loved the arts and the Rockies. Though variously a filmmaker, bookseller, publisher, local historian, museum-keeper, critic and columnist, Jon Whyte was always and most fundamentally a poet.

Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains traces his poetic career from his early years as part of Edmonton's fertile 1960s literary community, through his acclaimed 1982 poem Homage: Henry Kelsey, to Fells of Brightness, his visionary evocation of the "Shining Mountains."

Complemented with photographs and artwork reproductions, Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains introduces previously unpublished work along with his best-known writings and includes a foreword by longtime friend and writer Myrna Kostash.

About this title

About the Author

Jon Whyte is a Red Deer Press author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889952086
• ISBN 13: 9780889952089
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166