Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Cathryn Miller, Canada
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam;
Cathryn Miller, Grasswood, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2010 The loss at al-Mutanabbi Street is not only a loss of life (which is horrendous), but a loss of cultural history. Each of us has a personal cultural history: the language we speak, the books that were read to us as children, the first books we read ourselves, the books that our parents left us. This book is a tribute to a personal family history. In a back-hand way it also references the used book market somewhere on al-Mutanabbi Street. The edition was produced after I inherited my father's copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam when my mother died. (My father had pre-deceased her.) It had been his father's, and before that someone else's. The pages were foxed and water damaged and the yapp leather binding was disintegrating, so I scanned the pages, cleaned up the images, and produced a laser-printed facsimile edition with tipped-in archival inkjet print illustrations. Limited facsimile edition (16); Text block with tipped-in illustrations in paper cover. Laser and archival inkjet printing. Acid-free 100% recycled 80# text paper, antique wallpaper, linen thread. 17 x 11.75 x 1.5 cm (closed). byopia@shaw.ca |