This color illustrated edition contains the ornamented crème de la crème of my Omaresque style quatrains, as selected from the larger volume of ‘Austin's Rubaiyat’. These are not translations, but my own inventions.
Prologue: Inspired by Omar, I have endeavored to capture his spirit for more modern times, although I have surely been influenced by Edward FitzGerald’s translated gems.
There is a companion prose version, ‘The Triumph of Life, Love, and Being’, in which a loving couple take a long, picaresque journey through the countryside to explore the joys and follies of the human condition, living out the quatrains.
