{"product_id":"go-deep-and-take-plenty-erik-fraser-storlie-9781482695984","title":"Go Deep and Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement Zen, Growing Up, Growing Tender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo Deep and Take Plenty of Root\u003c\/i\u003e, Erik Storlie's latest memoir, explores his conflicted prairie-Norwegian roots, a sixties Beat scene in Minneapolis that inspired the early Bob Dylan, friendship with the poets James Wright and Robert Bly, and his almost fifty years of Zen meditation. This book illuminates a tectonic shift in American life, Storlie's embrace of the contemplative arts, and the real-world challenge of bringing an idealistic meditative practice into marriage, divorce, raising children, and the deaths of parents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance Praise for \u003ci\u003eGo Deep and Take Plenty of Root\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Erik Storlie's remarkable memoir, he takes us on a mad tour of Secret Minnesota-and this is not Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. I loved discovering Storlie's Midwestern beatnik paradise, a place where Bob Dylan and the poet James Wright might show up at the next party. Storlie was one of the original Minneapolis mystics; he searched for the ecstatic, the illegal, and the unspeakable in the bars of Dinkytown. What he found will delight the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Pagan Kennedy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Erik Storlie's superbly detailed and touching memoir, we see how, by way of many tensions with both parents, and by an evolving liberating attention to their veiled individuality (\"I knew it was hurt that tensed and wrinkled the skin around his eyes\"), he gains insights into their hidden natures and comes to an awareness of what he calls at one point \"sorrow beyond my fathoming\"....This is wonderfully tender, accurate writing, and brings us into the presences, events and relationships of one writer's past that can enhance the present for all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Michael Dennis Browne, author of \u003ci\u003eThings I Can't Tell You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErik Storlie's previous memoir, \u003ci\u003eNothing on My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, recounts the arrival of psychedelics in Berkeley in the mid-1960s and his experiences with Zen teachers Shunryu Suzuki and Dainin Katagiri. He refuses formal Buddhism, convinced that America and Americans need meditation practice, but not the ceremonial and cult-like elements of Japanese Zen. \u003ci\u003eGo Deep and Take Plenty of Root\u003c\/i\u003e takes us a step further, demonstrating that Asian meditative practice can be reconciled with and can deeply infuse an American life. Here also we meet close up the poets James Wright and Robert Bly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Scott Edelstein, author of \u003ci\u003eSex and the Spiritual Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Fraser Storlie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1482695987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781482695984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Erik Fraser Storlie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46110701519103,"sku":"9781482695984","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54643804-369f-4b65-9ed1-9862a5002c94.jpg?v=1725469516","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/go-deep-and-take-plenty-erik-fraser-storlie-9781482695984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}