Eight Beggars Concatenating Verses of Separation and Repair Josh Goldberg Steven Joseph 9780692761564 Books
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Taking inspiration from the Hasidic master, Reb Nachman of Breslov’s classic Tale of the Seven Beggars, poet, Josh Goldberg has created a new work of beauty and profundity. He writes in his preface "Any encounter with Reb Nachman makes us apocryphal and beggarly. ... He pulls us out from our settled comfortability. ... Why eight beggars? Because Nachman’s seventh beggar never arrives? Perhaps. But as each beggar represents (“in the negative”) no eyes, no ears, no mouth, no neck, no back, no hands, and no feet, it is crucial to notice what indeed has been omitted. The nose, the major universal stereotype of the Jew, is missing. The physiognomy of exclusion and exile. The Nosed One. ... Of all the beggars, he alone enfolds our broken hearts as he prepares the dark future. His pain purifies the torn night. His storm-compassion addresses our unborn descendants. He gives us pause to understand who we are and who we are not." "Josh Goldberg’s Eight Beggars is not yet another version of Reb Nachman’s story. It is a twenty-first century North-American Jewish answer to Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s early nineteenth century Eastern European Jewish question—about the mystery of God and the world, and the place and task of humanity within that mystery. — Steven Joseph, Jungian Analyst
Eight Beggars Concatenating Verses of Separation and Repair Josh Goldberg Steven Joseph 9780692761564 Books
I found Josh Goldberg's, 'Eight Beggars' to be fascinating and unique. I was struck by the relationship of beggar to artist. As implied in his 'Explanatory Note' on page xxi, the beggar symbolizes perfection 'in an imperfect world', and is mindful of truth just as the artist searches for true meaning and insightfulness in his or her work. Through self-awareness and enlightenment, the beggar, stripped of all material and secular possessions, lays bare the simple core and beauty of vision, understanding and humanness in its rawest form, similar to the truth and honesty which the artist brings to the art form.Product details
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Eight Beggars Concatenating Verses of Separation and Repair Josh Goldberg Steven Joseph 9780692761564 Books Reviews
As with his sprawling canvases and his earlier collection, "A Beggar at the Door," Josh Goldberg’s "Eight Beggars" pulls us into worlds-within-worlds, bursting shards of color shimmering, effervescent, illuminating. His is a rich mythology, paying homage to Reb Nachman, and brimming over with a lively swath of travelers from “Freeway tzaddiks/seers, sages/pray-ers, tinkers/morning’s dull clamor/clanking of doom” and “Hunchback, humpback/bunchbacked, bunched/sloped-back traveler/valley’s stone road/bears graver storms,” to “Princess Shekhina/God’s first creation/white face in darkness/churns chaos-butter/sullen mouth swells.” They all make their way towards the intrusive “Schnoz, sneezer/snoot, sniffer/snuffer, wiffer/eel-bucket/wicked,” towards “Reb No-Nose,” who unwittingly takes center stage in a midrash of "The Seven Beggars" for a world that watched exaggeration and caricature glide into genocide. It’s a world in disrepair “Once wealthy land/now daylight madness/mistaken identity/a crazed gardener/inhales clouds,” a world where we’re left to ask, along with Goldberg “Anyone saved?” But it is also a world still wrought with beauty, still capable of magic, even if it’s the magic of transgression “Princess flees/to water castle/disobeys tongue and utensil/finds light/in sifts of silver.” Echoes of the Song of Songs hover over Goldberg’s dart-like verses, poignant koans, each of them. The result is a rippling love song to small redemptions “Sabbath/source-purifying/light-gorged/gilded Messianic carousel/slowly turns.”
Like his first volume of poetry, "A Beggar at the Door," Josh Goldberg's new book, "Eight Beggars" is not for the casual reader, nor is it a sanguine or comforting volume. Rather, it seeks to produce the kind of disquiet that wrenches the reader away from mundane thinking and into a profound and sometimes painful exploration of Jewish identity, the relationship between humankind and God, and the very nature of existence. The book does so by poetically addressing the Seven Beggars of Hasidic literature...and by adding a grossly stereotypical Eighth, portending Jewish catastrophe and darkness. As in his previous effort Goldberg's writing is elegant in its imagery, provocative and multi-layered in meaning. Each reading yields new insights and mysteries within mysteries, concluding with the wistful question "How can we understand a world that cannot be understood?" It remains for each reader, alone, to ponder the question.
Josh Goldberg's new book is sparse and deep. It is like his wonderful abstract paintings, this requires study and thought. Although there is a clear reference to Jewishness, one doesn't have to be Jewish to feel the power and feeling of his words.
Josh Goldberg's new book of poetry based on the 18th century work of Nachman "....Seven Beggars" explores the possibility of an eighth the "no nose" Jew. Although this work is relatively short - eight sections (!) with each poem only 5 lines - it is both thoughtful and simultaneously disquieting. The third section ends '...December's dark colored mouth ash-colored silence" while the fourth immediately begins "...washes clean plowing fields dawn comes home". This is not an easy read, often simultaneously disquieting, thoughtful.despairing, hopeful and uplifting. To do it justice and have a better understanding of the author's often profound insights, it surely requires - and deserves - multiple readings.
I found Josh Goldberg's, 'Eight Beggars' to be fascinating and unique. I was struck by the relationship of beggar to artist. As implied in his 'Explanatory Note' on page xxi, the beggar symbolizes perfection 'in an imperfect world', and is mindful of truth just as the artist searches for true meaning and insightfulness in his or her work. Through self-awareness and enlightenment, the beggar, stripped of all material and secular possessions, lays bare the simple core and beauty of vision, understanding and humanness in its rawest form, similar to the truth and honesty which the artist brings to the art form.
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