Useless Tree

The Useless Tree is Steve Brandl's complete rendering of the Zhuangzi in three distinct voices: clear prose, reflective investigation, and lyrical verse. Moving through all thirty-three chapters, this book opens one of the great classics of Daoist thought to the modern reader without flattening its strangeness, humor, or depth.Where Laozi is spare and still, Zhuangzi is playful, unpredictable, and...