Six Persimmons edition by David Bershtein Ma Lin Shih Tao Hung Jen Sherman E Lee Arts Photography eBooks
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Six Persimmons is a book of poems in spired by Chinese and Japanese paintings. Most of the paintings were studied and enjoyed by me in the home of my good friend, the late John M. Crawford, Jr. The paintings from John's collection now form the jewels in an otherwise dubious crown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The late Kenneth Rexroth reviewed the book favorably in the Los Angeles Times. We spoke and corresponded before the days of cellphones and email and he gave me great encouragment.
Six Persimmons edition by David Bershtein Ma Lin Shih Tao Hung Jen Sherman E Lee Arts Photography eBooks
61% of book have poems unrelated to any chinese paintings, therefore to suggest inspiration therefrom is misleading and nothing short of sacrilegious. The description that "Six Persimmons is a book of poems inspired by Chinese and Japanese paintings" is only partly true. The majority of the poems therein are unrelated to any Oriental Paintings.The book is simply somebody's poem book with all kinds of poems, who decides to publish it and claim inspiration from some oriental classical painting and charge $2.99 for it.
The included Paintings are clear but have lengthy messy web addresses spelt out at the top. 39% of the kindle pages do contain poems with an accompanying chinese painting next to it. The remaining 61% of the pages contain poems that are neither related to any oriental painting nor is in anyway oriental by nature.
Selected poems include one on suicide in Paris, one about mowing, one about ballet, one about laundry, one about body parts, one about an american pet, one about a spanish banker, another about New Age, a requiem etc etc. Admittedly I do like the one about laundry and being old, but most of this book is "not as described"... and partly like someone's poem notebook.
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Six Persimmons edition by David Bershtein Ma Lin Shih Tao Hung Jen Sherman E Lee Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
Six Persimmons is a magical journey of poetry and painting that perfectly captures the aesthetic of Chinese art at the time. The poems bring the paintings to life, adding their own emotional strength to the scene and engaging the reader in a way the art alone can't do. Bershtein has a chameleon quality to his poetry, capturing the subtle cadences and imagery of Chinese poetry with seemingly effortless ease. The book is timeless, beautiful and poignant. The imagery, humour and pathos that runs throughout elevates the book into a profound reflection in art and poetry and the great Chinese masters of both. A tour de force and essential reading for anyone interested in the genre.
There are fine moments where David Bershtein marries the ink word with the ink line impeccably. And yet, inspiration of one art by another is a very subjective matter, and as the viewer/reader, we are also forming our own responses to both arts. As a first reading I deliberately did not read the footnotes, but will return to the volume again in a few weeks, and read them again, along with the notes.
My favourite line `my wrist pulls poems/from a distraction' in `Evening in the Spring Hills', speaks to me on many levels, both as an occasional writer myself, and also as an observer of art. Other poems I will return to include `One-Stroke Bodhidaharma' and `(a certain jingling)'.
Poems cannot be `read' in one or two readings, they are owed an accretion of attention over time.
(Before posting this I read the earlier reviews. I agree that, strictly speaking, line for line, there are a greater number of poems that are not responding to Chinese art, however, I certainly still felt in some of them that the influence of those that were, was inspirational to some of the other pieces. Perhaps a simple retitling as `Six Persimmons, and other selected poems' might avoid discontent from those especially interested in things Chinese or art in particular, rather than poetry in general.)
61% of book have poems unrelated to any chinese paintings, therefore to suggest inspiration therefrom is misleading and nothing short of sacrilegious. The description that "Six Persimmons is a book of poems inspired by Chinese and Japanese paintings" is only partly true. The majority of the poems therein are unrelated to any Oriental Paintings.
The book is simply somebody's poem book with all kinds of poems, who decides to publish it and claim inspiration from some oriental classical painting and charge $2.99 for it.
The included Paintings are clear but have lengthy messy web addresses spelt out at the top. 39% of the kindle pages do contain poems with an accompanying chinese painting next to it. The remaining 61% of the pages contain poems that are neither related to any oriental painting nor is in anyway oriental by nature.
Selected poems include one on suicide in Paris, one about mowing, one about ballet, one about laundry, one about body parts, one about an american pet, one about a spanish banker, another about New Age, a requiem etc etc. Admittedly I do like the one about laundry and being old, but most of this book is "not as described"... and partly like someone's poem notebook.
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