This Now

I was the kind of drunk who sat in bars and talked about how much I loved my kid begins THIS NOW A Poetic Memoir of Sorts by Taiyu John Robertson a sober alcoholic zen buddhist father lawyer and at times a childish fool. A year and a half following his last drink these Bukowski-like images began to ooze up and onto the page. Robertson writes of drunken longing spiritual redemption and the newly found honesty of an ordinary life.