Breathing Nose Mountain

In Breathing Nose Mountain, the poet, Vivian Demuth, explores the link between people and place by drawing on her experiences living for four months on a mountain while working as a fire lookout.

This is a beautiful collection. I read through it thoroughly transported by Vivian Demuth s Nose Mountain experience and her ability to transpose this into poetry. The opening long invocation poem is a stunner. The poem, Tree Talk, that completes the sequence is an excellent place to end, back within the experience, but with something that reaches beyond it, too.
-- Marilyn Hacker, author of Selected Poems: 1965-1990 and Desesperanto

Demuth treats the Nose Mountain Fire Tower from a delightfully ambiguous, person perspective. [ Desolation Devi/l ] is such a Canadian poem yet it does homage to Jack Kerouac s Desolation Angel and to the energy of the American Beat poets with their outrageously visceral response to lief in general, and to nature and sexuality in particular. Elroy Deirmert, Editor, Smoky Peace Press