Alan V. Goldman’s Compelling Book of Poetry, “Reflections on Mountaineering,” Will Be Displayed at the 2024 Guadalajara International Book Fair

The self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will exhibit the Author’s (Alan V. Goldman) “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) with Addendum (2024)” at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2024. The book fair will be held from November 30 to December 8, 2024, at the prestigious Expo Guadalajara, located at Ave. Mariano Otero 1499, Colonia Verde Valle, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. ReadersMagnet will participate for the entire five days of the Book Fair, which runs from November 30 to December 4, 2024.

Also known as Feria Internacíonal del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL), the Guadalajara International Book Fair is the most important publishing event in Ibero-America and a grand cultural festival Established 38 years ago by the University of Guadalajara. This book fair is a unique platform that caters to professionals and the general public, setting it apart from other book fairs worldwide.

Written by an avid mountaineer with many decades of experience, the poems in “Reflections on Mountaineering” further address, inter alia, the human perception of the passage of time. and perception of reality, while climbing, end endeavor to convey the nature of the human condition and of life itself. All the poems are Narrative in form, in that they convey a coherent, readily accessible story having some moral or “life-lesson” imbedded in the tale of adventure. Some of the poems are in rhyme, while others are in blank verse or structured prose (sometimes called “prose-poems”). Many of the stories in this eloquent collection are drawn from the author’s adventures, while others are drawn from experiences of fellow climbers’ and instructors.

“Reflections on Mountaineering” has been favorably reviewed in The US Review of Books by Mari Carlson; Foreword Clarion by Michele Sharpe; and later, by Jeana Jorgensen, the ,Pacific Book Review by Anthony Avina (and winner of the Pacific Book Review Prize for “Best Book about Sports in 2022”); Seattle Book Review by Maileen Hamto; San Francisco Book Review by Alex Telander; IndieReader by Joan Kirschner; Portland Book Review by Theresa Kadair; the editors of BookLife Reviews, and by dozens of AMAZON “verified purchase” reader-reviews. From budding poets to mountaineers, everyone who loves to explore life’s beauty through emotional introspection and metaphysical examination will enjoy reading the Author’s uniquely compelling Book.

In particular, Booklife Reviews by Publishers Weekly lauded the Author for making accessible to the general public the otherwise “hidden” truths that mountaineers are often said to experience. “Many of the poems address the human perception of reality in the context of the meaning of life itself, and of how climbers impart meaning to the mountains by the very act of climbing them,” the article stated.

From budding poets to young mountaineers, everyone who loves to explore life’s beauty, and travails, through emotional introspection and metaphysical examination will enjoy reading the Author’s compelling Book.

Visitors to the 2024 Guadalajara International Book Fair can find the display for “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) with Addendum (2024)” by Alan V. Goldman at the ReadersMagnet exhibit at stand #GG40 and #GG42. Get a copy on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Learn more about the Author by visiting his fulsome Website at https://www.mountainreflections.art/.

“Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) with Addendum”
Author: Alan V. Goldman
Genre: Poetry and Inspirational Adventure
Publisher: Bookside Press
Published date: February 2024

Author

Alan V. Goldman is a graduate of Horace Mann School (1975); Harvard College (1979); and Harvard Law School (1982). He was elected a member of the The Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1979. In addition to his avocation as an avid mountaineer, he practiced corporate litigation for many years and is now retired.
 

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