Yunnan poet Luruo Diji writes in beautifully arranged Mandarin Chines, but his poetry has its source on the distant periphery of the Chinese cultural world. His people, the Pumi ethnic minority, are longtime residents of a unique natural landscape bordering both the Himalaya Mountains and deep subtropical jungles, hoe to giant snow mountains and steep gorges, where the upper reaches of the Yangtze River rage and thunder Luruo often presents his poems as material pieces of his homeland. The fine earth crumblings of the land’s inspiration pass through his hands and lay on the page. This collection is an emotional tribute to one of China’s most stunning wildernesses, by one of its children.