David Romtvedt's No Way: An American "Tao Te Ching" explores the art of living in the fast-paced, dangerous, unpredictable contemporary world. Lucid and wise in the spirit of its ancient Chinese predecessor, No Way functions as a kind of offbeat-yet-deadly-serious manual on the conduct of life. This slightly tongue-in-cheek take on the Tao's advice acknowledges that nobody likes being told how to live, least of all the author himself. With an openness to complexity and mystery, in tones that range from cool to passionate, No Way brings the Tao into the social turmoil of a twenty-first-century United States beset by political strife, mass shootings, and financial greed. Romtvedt combats cynicism and malaise with wry verse that positions itself in the role of the trickster. The voice of these poems can be serious and contradictory yet also humorous and welcoming. By suggesting that the days of the ancient Tao are gone for good, No Way offers readers an invitation to guide themselves forward, free of sages and rulers.
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Eastern PhilosophyIndex
LiteratureCONTENTS
No Way
The Names
Unnamed
The Master and the Waitress
The Well
Remembering the Wedding
Rubble
Born
At the Creek
Sonetto Preoccupato
One, Two, Three, Four
Comparative Religion
Vision
Lion on a Cheese Grater
Drink
Spiritual Mathematics
Empty Mind
Weather
Understanding Childhood
Fewer Jews
Five, Six, Seven, Eight
At the Dermatologistās
Political Action
Inner Life
Making an Effort
Something Formless and Perfect
The Conservation of Matter and Energy
Early Snow
Oh, Boy
Making a Living
The Day God Made Wasps
Second Thoughts
Ping-Pong
Butterfly
Carpentry
Exam
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- No Way
- The Names
- Unnamed
- The Master and the Waitress
- The Well
- Remembering the Wedding
- Rubble
- Born
- At the Creek
- Sonetto Preoccupato
- One, Two, Three, Four
- Comparative Religion
- Vision
- Lion on a Cheese Grater
- Drink
- Spiritual Mathematics
- Empty Mind
- Weather
- Understanding Childhood
- Fewer Jews
- Five, Six, Seven, Eight
- At the Dermatologistās
- Political Action
- Inner Life
- Making an Effort
- Something Formless and Perfect
- The Conservation of Matter and Energy
- Early Snow
- Oh, Boy
- Making a Living
- The Day God Made Wasps
- Second Thoughts
- Ping-Pong
- Butterfly
- Carpentry
- Exam
- Withering Away
- Working
- The Barking Dog
- The Singing
- Privacy
- The President, the Tao, the Day
- The Train
- Action
- We Wanted to Know
- Dress for Success
- Anything but Music
- The Army
- Sitting
- Keys
- The Moon in the Middle of the Day
- Playing with Words
- Reborn
- The Road
- At the Beginning of the Universe
- American History
- Making Ends Meet
- Framing
- Invitation
- Chickadees
- Eating Fish
- Roses
- Center of the Universe
- Not Me
- Shutting Up
- Hungry
- Undertow
- Teaching
- Insurance Premium
- Pawns
- Urine
- No Lie
- Manifesto
- The Net
- The Nail
- Extinct
- The Ski Poles
- Politics Up to Date
- A Prayer
- Success
- Hunting
- Poor People
- There Is No
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