David Rothenberg is one of our most eloquent observers of the interplay betweennature culture and technology. These nineteen pieces exemplify what has beencalle... » 

David Rothenberg is one of our most eloquent observers of the interplay betweennature culture and technology. These nineteen pieces exemplify what has beencalled Rothenbergs amiable mix of interests styles and approaches.Insettings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in upstate NewYork Rothenberg discusses the Hudson River School of painters the hazyprovenance of Chief Seattles famous speech ecoterrorism suburbia the WorldWide Web and much more. He asks if we can save a place less obtrusively thanby turning it into a park. He muses on the plight of a pacifist beset by aswarm of mosquitoes. He ascends Mt. Ventoux with Petrarch and Mt. Katahdin withThoreau.In Always the Mountains Rothenberg dares us to enjoy thefundamental uncertainty that grounds human existence to wean ourselves fromthe habit of simple answers and embrace the worlds vastness. «