In a poetry collection written at 16 years old, John Colacarro shares his journey through 6 chapters. Dealing with different parts of growing up, mountains discusses themes such as heartbreak, loss, nostalgia, and self-hate. It takes the reader through a journey, hoping that they find themselves somewhere in it.

It was only eight nights.

It began with a man named Neptune. Romeo, an aspiring poet, writes his story in notebooks and his poems about the encounter in the margins with hopes to publish them someday.

Twenty years prior, the two of them met out of the blue on a November night, and over the course of their time together, Romeo untangles himself and...

When John Colacarro published his first poetry and prose collection mountains before he graduated high school, he knew that the book was going to be dedicated to people who, similarly to him, were going through a difficult time. However, in his new collection, he dedicates his book to the kid who needed to hear these words.