The Mountain of Gold

“The Mountain of Gold is a marvelous and vast poetic achievement filled with echoes and resonances of the medieval quest romance, Dante, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, folk tale, the Bible, Tolkien, and much more. It is a deeply religious poem that digs back into cultural antiquity, a remarkable and imaginatively sustained achievement in verse that provokes much meditation.”


—David Jasper, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow





“A splendid, cinematic coming-of-age tale—good and evil are at loggerheads. Will love win? A boy’s father flees in search of riches, leaving a bereaved wife to go mad with grief. Frightened by her violent outbursts, the boy flees to the forest. There, a woodland sylph rescues him from eternal damnation by revealing the true nature of avarice and the power of true love.”


—Ghia Truesdale a.k.a. G. G. Garth, author of Nightmare Matinee