Eight Beggars: Concatenating Verses of Separation and Repair

by Steven Joseph and Josh Goldberg

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069276156X
• ISBN13: 9780692761564
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Albion-Andalus Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"