Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra
Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics
and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie
Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth's poetry and prose described the way
Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra.
Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as
well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel,
newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and
correspondence. Famed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has
compiled a gift for lovers of mountains and poetry both. This volume
also contains Robinson's introduction and notes, photographs of Rexroth,
a map of Rexroth's travels, and an amazing astronomical analysis of
Rexroth's poems by the fiction writer Carter Scholz.