…less than meets the eye…

Book review:

The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald, trans.

Manoocher Aryanpur, intro.

Joseph Isom, illus.

Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. 1967

59 pages

Overall, Omar Khayyam’s classic doesn’t appeal to my modern ear. It’s too long, and disorganized.

Having said that, I’m happy to acknowledge that a reader can find poetic beauty and exotic imagery seeded throughout the poem, e.g. “…There was the Door to which I found no Key/There was the Veil through which I could not see:/Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee/There was—and then no more of Thee and Me.” (Stanza XXXIII)

No one will confuse the Rubayyat with Mary Oliver’s work.

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Book review: The Jungle Grows Back:

America and Our Imperiled World

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