在云南紅土高原的西北，有綿延千里的小涼山，奔騰喧囂的金沙江，直剌青天的玉龍雪山，還有美麗動人的瀘沽湖。我就出生在那片神奇美麗的土地上。

詩人來自普米族，一個只有三萬多人的民族，他的家在云南小涼山脈的斯布炯山下、瀘沽湖邊的一個叫果流的村莊里，他的父親是茶馬古道上的趕馬人，他的母親是果流村里的女王，她會唱的民歌如星星一樣多。他說，他是那片土地上千萬個孩子中zui普通的一個。他還說，作為行吟在那片土地上的歌者，他是幸運的寵兒。他幸運，是因為他深深愛著的那片神奇美麗的土地給了他生命，也給了他詩篇。

I was born on Yunnan provinces high, red earth plateau, where the Little Liang Mountains stretch far into the north western distance. Here, the pounding Jinsha river thunders through gorges, the Yulong Snow Mountain pierces heaven, and here also is beautiful Lugu Lake, whose waters stir deep currents in all those who look on her.

This poets People is a small one; the Pumi ethnicity numbers only around thirty thousand people in total. His home is a village named Guoliu, which nestles beneath Mount Sibujiong in the Little Liang Mountain range, at the edge of Lugu Lake. His father drives horse caravans along the ancient Tea Horse Road, a trade route between horse-rich Tibet and Yunnans tea-producing jungle regions. The poet introduces his mother as the Queen of Guoliu village, a lady feted for her ability to sing more Pumi folk-songs than there are stars in the sky. Luruo says he is a completely ordinary child of his land, just one among many others like him. He also calls himself a child of fortune for him, it is a great blessing to make a livelihoods composing verse in his native place. The fount of his good fortune is the ethereal vitality of the land that he so loves, and which has given him life, and poems.

Yunnan 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 moulded by unrestrained acts of nature. His People, the Pumi ethnic minority, are long-time residents of a unique natural landscape bordering both th e Himalaya Mountains and deep sub-tropical jungles, home to giant snow-mountains and steep gorges, where the upper reaches of the Yangzi River rage and thunder. 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.

Luruo often presents his poems as material pieces of his homeland, the fine earth crumblings of the lands inspiration passed through his hands, laid on the page. This collection is an emotional tribute to one of Chinas most stunning wildernesses, by one of its children.