Thu, Sep 25
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Philip Connors, The Mountain Knows the Mountain
From the bestselling National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. "The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missing a year for multiple surgeries.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 25, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Multi-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.
The result is The Mountain Knows the Mountain, a meticulously observed experience of one fire season chronicled in haibun, the centuries-old prose form dating from Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior 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…