Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains
Edited by Harry Vandervlist
Poetry / Canadian
166 pages • 8 x 8 1/2"
ISBN 0–88995–204–3 cloth • CDN 19.95 • USA 19.95
ISBN 0–88995–208–6 paper • CDN 9.95 • USA 9.95

"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 Complemented with photographs and artwork reproductions, Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains introduces previously unpublished work along with his best–known writings and includes a foreword by longtime friend and writer Myrna Kostash. Available in both cloth and paper editions, this collection is a rare and elegant tribute to Canada's poet of the Rocky Mountains.

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