Ruby Mountain

<p><em>Ruby Mountain</em> takes readers on a powerful evocative spiritual and personal journey of the Mojave Desert by longtime poet/resident Ruth Nolan. These poems written in an exciting mix of high and low poetic forms – from sonnet to ragged free verse – employ the very best of imagery poetic subtleties and evoke the inner poetry of the desert’s exotic geographies and more recognizable iconic features and embrace a wide sweep of subjects including a lover’s suicide environmental protests against large-scale renewable energy project sited on sacred American Indian sites and a re-telling of one of the Mojave Desert’s most famed and enduring romantic tragedies the story of Willy Boy.</p>