description: Known for over three decades as the poet of Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Andrew Suknaski was born on a farm near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan in 1942 of Ukrainian and Polish decent, left home at 16, returned and left home again. Until well into the 1980s, Andrew Suknaski was one of the most prolific, energetic and influential poets in the prairies, through heavy amounts of publishing in small press publications and elsewhere starting in the late 1960s, as well as his own Elfin Plot Press, and caught the eye of Ontario poet and editor Al Purdy, who included Suknaski's poems in his first Storm Warning Anthology (1970), before editing what would become Suknaski's first trade and most famous poetry collection, Wood Mountain Poems (1976). In eight trade poetry collections and dozens of chapbooks, Suknaski's poems were written as stories about the land and the people that lived there, working their way toward myth, and the myth of the place, even as he told the real story of various residents of the village of Wood Mountain. With much of his work long out of print, There Is No Selected Poems of Andrew Suknaski weaves through two decades of the work of one of the most important and influential poets of the Canadian prairies.
language: English
title: There Is No Mountain: Selected Poems of Andrew Suknaski
titlecomplete: There Is No Mountain: Selected Poems of Andrew Suknaski
publisher: Chaudiere Books