Brian Laidlaw is a poet-songwriter whose previous books include The Stuntman (Milkweed Editions, 2015) and The Mirrormaker (Milkweed Editions, 2018), each of which was released with a companion album of original music; a new collection called Summer Err – a book-length erasure of John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra – is forthcoming from Mount Vision Press in 2019. Brian continues to tour as a folksinger, and moonlights – often literally – as a rock climber.