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|  | | Always Doing Being We Live Our Lives
A Poetic Memoir of addiction, redemption, Zen Buddhism, and the path of a lawyer, biker, Buddhist, father, poet.
We all seek nirvana. We believe if we get just the right job or lover or house or child or drug or religion, then finally suffering will end, joy will bloom, and we'll glide along forever in the sweet spot of carefree life. Its a nice fantasy and most folks just stumble about, gloriously oblivious to the truth of the world, the universe, and themselves in it.
There are exceptions.
Always Doing Being, We Live Our Lives showcases, sometimes in painful detail, what it means to wake up to the reality of mindlessness, craving, addiction, redemption, and hope for one poet author, | |  | | The Only Universe I Have Ever Known
Taiyu John Robertson's latest volume of poems continues his memoir in free verse.
The Only Universe I Have Ever Known, is poet Taiyu John Robertson's third volume of poetry. Covering the terrain of alcoholism, recovery, childhood, his work as a criminal defense lawyer, the parenting of his son, and his growing practice as a Zen Buddhist, these poems bring forth a clever mix of raw gritty realism and spiritual struggle. Not for the faint of heart |
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