Austin's Golden Rubaiyat Art Scapes

6x9 saddle-stiched edition. This contains the crème de la crème of my Omaresque style quatrains, selected from Austin's Rubaiyat. 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. The illustration are my composited digital art, along with some colorized Rubaiyat art. A few of the quatrains were obtained from my other poetry books, which poems in their full text can be found in Epic Thoughts: The Best Of. My quatrains, like Omar’s, aim into the heart of life’s dilemmas, offering simple, common sense solutions. In this hectic, complicated world of ours, we often forget that it is the simple things in life that are still the most enjoyable and inexpensive.