Below Cold Mountain

Résumé du livre

"This ... suite of poems takes the reader on an odyssey across the globe–from California to India, Spain to the Greek islands, and on to South America and Southeast Asia. In these poems, Stroud wears his expansive erudition like a comfortable old sweater, slipping from one persona to another but always with an eye and ear trained on the commonplace details that form a poetry one can live by. Setting up a dialectic with the Chinese hermit-poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Stroud’s poems move from the elegiac to the comic, the fragmentary to the uncommonly lyrical. Offering no easy solutions and no platitudes, Stroud presents a clarity of language and the tone of everyday speech through which his poetry can be felt"--From publisher's description.