Ink on Paper

by John Wilson

As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai, Shih K'o, Korin, Ku K'ai-chih, Kusumi Morikage, Taiga and Kung K'ai. The succinct loveliness of the poems seems often as acute as the verses of Li Po and Tu Fu.

"One of the poems herein says, 'Art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087286393X
• ISBN13: 9780872863934
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 8.2"

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Poems

These poems are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical Chinese & Japanese painters, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Shih K'o, and Mu-ch'i