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No Way

An American Tao Te Ching

By: David Romtvedt

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No Way

An American Tao Te Ching

By: David Romtvedt

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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103

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LSU Press

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0807175129

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9780807175125

Crossing Wyoming

By: David Romtvedt

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Crossing Wyoming

By: David Romtvedt

Crossing Wyoming achieves a narrative scope and unity rare in any gathering of stories. A complex, moving book, [it] conveys the colorful, violent sweep of American history, the majesty and vulnerability of its wilderness, and the suffering and patient endurance of its citizens--natives and newcomers alike...it's difficult to imagine any reader coming away unshaken by [Romtvedt's] powerful, compassionate vision."--The Georgia Review

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White Pine Press

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1877727237

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9781877727238

No Way

An American Tao Te Ching

By: David Romtvedt

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An American Tao Te Ching

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0807175137

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Dilemmas of the Angels

Poems

By: David Romtvedt

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Dilemmas of the Angels

Poems

By: David Romtvedt

In David Romtvedt’s seventh collection, Dilemmas of the Angels, the intersections of the public and private, and the global and local, are explored with a focus on the strangeness of everyday life. Throughout, the bonds and challenges of parenthood and marriage underscore larger questions about one’s place in space and time, as well as the tensions between the worldly and the divine. Romtvedt, Poet laureate emeritus of Wyoming, shows an appreciation for the distinct mountainous landscape of his adopted home, a setting paired with accounts of Nicaragua, Rwanda and the Congo, to produce a remarkably diverse but intrinsically connected planet. A mediation on the ever-present need to balance the materiality of our exterior lives with the riches of our spiritual ones, Dilemmas of the Angels is a masterful testament to a very human struggle.

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LSU Press

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0807165816

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A Delicate Aggression

Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop

By: David O. Dowling

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A Delicate Aggression

Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop

By: David O. Dowling

A vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six U.S. poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the “workshop” method of classroom peer criticism. Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program—such as Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson—David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.

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440

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Yale University Press

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0300245009

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9780300245004

Antichrist of Kokomo County

A Novel

By: David Skinner

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Antichrist of Kokomo County

A Novel

By: David Skinner

Frankie Horvath is not happy. He's almost forty. He's fat. His wife is dead. He designs forks for a living. And his son might just be the Antichrist. Frankie is about to meet with Satanists to find out the truth once and for all. Taking into account Frankie's lifelong delusions of grandeur, and the gun stuffed down the front of his pants, a bloody showdown for the fate of mankind is not out of the question.

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266

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Conundrum Press

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1942280289

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9781942280286

Crossing Wyoming

By: David Romtvedt

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By: David Romtvedt

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White Pine Press

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Book's by David Romtvedt

No Way

No Way

Crossing Wyoming

Crossing Wyoming

No Way

No Way

Dilemmas of the Angels

Dilemmas of the Angels

A Delicate Aggression

A Delicate Aggression

Antichrist of Kokomo County

Antichrist of Kokomo County

Crossing Wyoming

Crossing Wyoming

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