Publisher's Synopsis
This illustrated and illuminated hardcover 800 page presentation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is meant to be the final and exhaustive rendering of Edward FitzGerald's 115 quatrains that he transmogrified from Omar's Farsi Arabic. The breadth and depth of FitzOmar has been greatly expanded upon herein by the collection and improvement of the FitzGerald-based root quatrains, plus variants, and related Omar quatrains from the public domain, along with my own inspired quatrains, and some of Positor's, and putting their illustrated quatrains right after the best FitzOmar rendition selected from his four versions-which pictorial presentation overall beats just reading though some very long texts, such as the Bodleian and Calcutta manuscripts.There are also annotations, side stories, elaborations, and tangents presented, as well as my deep metaphysical explorations and solutions to Omar's quandries.Thus the book is fully complete, giving Rubaiyat readers a whole lot more to explore-and ever worth revisiting.It contains about 1600 works of my art, made from iclone, Daz3D, and Photoshop, over twenty years.What a puzzle it was to put together!
