Poetry has long fascinated former Star Tribune editorial board member Jim Lenfestey, both as a reader and a writer. Back in 1970 a bookseller gave him a collection of poems by Han Shan, or Cold Mountain, a Chinese poet who lived 1400 years ago.
Lenfestey fell in love with the poems, and remarkably found himself still reading them decades later. Lenfestey's new book "Seeking the Cave" is a memoir about how his love of Han Shan's work turned into a journey halfway around the world seeking the cave where legend says the poet lived.