Poet Luruo Diji writes in beautifully arranged Mandarin Chinese, but his poetry has its source on the distant periphery of the Chinese Cultural world; his poems take form in the red earth of the high plateau, in the lofty borderlands of Southwest China, a region molded by unrestrained acts of nature. Many of the poems in this book take place among these great natural formations, dipping in and out of stories of the people that live there, the impressions they left on the land for a moment.