Join McNally Jackson and n+1 for an evening with contributor Philip Connors as he launches his latest book, The Mountain Knows the Mountain. Connors had been a fire watcher in the Gila Wilderness for fourteen straight summers when he sustained an injury and was forced to miss a year recovering. When he returned, he resolved to see the mountain with fresh eyes and to keep a detailed notebook. The result is The Mountain Knows the Mountain , a meticulously observed experience of one fire season chronicled in  haibun , the centuries-old prose form dating from Basho’s  Narrow Road to the Interior  that recounts both inner and outer journeys and incorporates traditional haiku as an occasional element of narrative counterpoint. Though only a beginner in the practice of haiku, Connors deftly weaves close observation, personal reflection, and memory with hard-won knowledge of the forest, of the mountain, and of fire.…