Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains

by Jon Whyte

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889952086
• ISBN13: 9780889952089
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Mastery of the physical attributes of the spoken word

Jon Whyte is a filmmaker, bookseller, publisher, historian, museum curator, literary critic, columnist, and poet. It his poetry that is showcased in Jon Whyte: Mind Over Mountains. He is a true master of the physical attributes of the spoken word (including spacing, typography, and design when set down in writing) as this impressive and memorable collection of his work amply documents. Illustrated with black and white photography, these pieces will serve to introduce one of Canada's best to a whole new generation of readers. Falling In Love: Falling in love with what he'd written,/taking note of skill and craft,/either he was daft or smitten,/confused the ardor and, no doubt,/what she thought he wrote about.//He fell in love with what he'd written,/believing nominally it concerned/the woman it seemed to be about,/and hence by typical delusion/fell zatch over guggle into confusion,//falling in love with whom he'd written,/believing her to be the poem,/bedded her inside the home/he'd made of words, and on the shelf/neatly placed her in himself.