"The Mountains of Desire" is a greatly expanded retelling in prose and poetry of the ancient story of love and the sacred quest which comprises half the material in "The Seventh Song." "The Mountains of Desire" incorporates new source material recently discovered in a remote mountain village. Two outcast children, the mysterious Tay Nee and Sikeemila, the girl who discovers the little boy alone and lost in a forest meadow, grow up in seclusion under...