Week 7: Post-Post

I want to revisit "Danger on the Peaks." As I mentioned in my previous post, this was my favorite by far. of anything we have read.

I have never been exposed to this style of writing, the whole prose poetry thing. I am such a straight forward person, and so the directness of it is so much more appreciated. But I also appreciated that he moves through his life in pieces. He engages the reader in so may various aspects of life, through his own experiences as well as the other people and important influences in his life. He engages ecology in such a different way. Not necessarily observing it like Mary Oliver, but through his life. He does life with nature. The brazen way he asked for the toughest, most remote peak is a direct nod to the fact that he is a part of his surroundings. He has no fear of them because he knows them inside and out. instinctively. They are a part of him innately, not through observing, but through subconscious awareness  of who he is and how that relates to nature.