Seven + Two: A Mountain Climber's Journal

by Luo Ying, Denis Mair (Translator)

Overview

Even at high-altitude acclimatization camps, he did not stop writing poems in his 7+2 Mountain Climber’s Diary. He climbed and trekked to the most pristine vantage points on earth, from which he contemplated his life in the 21st century. He carried his poetic sensibility to the peaks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945680427
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luo Ying is founder and chairman of the Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group and director of the Chinese Poetry Institute of Peking University. He is author of several collections of poetry in Chinese. Denis Mair has translated the work of numerous Chinese poets into English, including the volumes Reading the Times: Poems of Yan Zhi and Selected Poems by Mai Cheng. Jonathan Stalling is an American poet, scholar, editor, translator, and inventor who works at the intersection of English and Chinese. He is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Kilamanjaro 2. Chomolungma 3. Brushes with Death 4. Mount McKinley 5. Mount Elbrus 6. The South Pole 7. Vinson Massif 8. Aconcagua Peak 9. Carstensz Pyramid 10. The North Pole 11. Cho Oyo (highest peak in Tibet) Poems from Green Tara Afterword

Editorial Reviews

These poems simultaneously celebrate the human spirt and the natural world, just as they critique our impact on the very landscapes within which we dwell. It is my hope that these poems become like mountain passes, navigable routes through the mountain range of different languages, cultures, classes, and ecological experiences. Our planet’s most magnificent mountain ranges have long presented humans with forbidding barriers to travel, trade, and communication, and as such have become deeply lodged into our species psyche. While summiting peaks may provide a fleeting moments of nearly omniscient perspective, poetry can serve as lasting passes through which we may cross for generations to come. “ — Jonathan Stallings

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