Criminal Mountains

By: John O'Neill

January 2003
88 pages | ISBN 0-919897-91-6
$15.00

Praise for John O'Neill's The Photographer of Wolves: Here is a poet who understands the thinking animal and the sentience of the landscape as intricately and powerfully as Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney. - George McWhirter

John O'Neill's fourth book of poetry, Criminal Mountains, describes a journey of discovery in time, in place, and in the mind. Starting with a sojourn in the Rocky Mountains, O'Neill shapes his poems from the landscape's animosity and even outright attack: the rough terrain, the ice and extreme cold, the bear attacks and the nightmares that follow the attacks. He then leaves the mountains to attend his dying mother, and faces another unforgiving situation. With a muscular style and bruising honesty O'Neill's Criminal Mountains is an uncompromising collection of startling emotions and imagery.

Reviews

• Inherited Methods (Chris Jennings, Canadian Literature, 12/1/2005)
• Review (University of Toronto Quarterly, 12/1/2004)

Other Titles by John O'Neill

• The Photographer of Wolves (1997)