{"product_id":"the-mountain-knows-the-mountain-a-fire-watch-diary-9780826368348","title":"The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom firewatcher\/poet comes a powerfully meditative with a basis in Japanese poetic form Haibun; comps are Peter Matthiesen's Snow Leopard and The Nine-Headed Dragon River, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, and even Norman MacLean's Young Men and Fire.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMulti-award-winning writer Philip Connors had been a fire watcher in the Gila Wilderness for fourteen straight summers when he sustained an injury and was forced to miss a year recovering. When he returned, he resolved to see the mountain with fresh eyes and to keep a detailed notebook. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain Knows the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, a meticulously observed experience of one fire season chronicled in \u003ci\u003ehaibun\u003c\/i\u003e, the centuries-old prose form dating from Basho's \u003ci\u003eNarrow Road to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e that recounts both inner and outer journeys and incorporates traditional haiku as an occasional element of narrative counterpoint. Though only a beginner in the practice of haiku, Connors deftly weaves close observation, personal reflection, and memory with hard-won knowledge of the forest, of the mountain, and of fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountain Knows the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is both mythic and immediate, a chronicle of daily events granular in their specificity but connected to larger themes of the observed world and the inner life of the observer. Connors captures the various moods of a long season on a mountain; plays with language and ways of seeing; and includes contributing perspectives from his partner, Mónica Ortiz Uribe, and his friend the late editor and publisher Bobby Byrd. Together with the author's own simple drawings, the resulting snapshots offer incisive visions of how to be intimate with the wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e High Road Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826368348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128","brand":"Philip Connors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474181652661,"sku":"9780826368348","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ccedce3e-3148-455d-911b-b3d586f8d49a.jpg?v=1754405119","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mountain-knows-the-mountain-a-fire-watch-diary-9780826368348","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}