{"product_id":"the-year-of-the-poet-xi-february-2024-paperback","title":"The Year of the Poet XI February 2024 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThe Poetry Posse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAshok K. Bhargava\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eWilliam S. Sr. Peters\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRenowned Poets\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOmar Khayyam\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOmar Khayyam (1048 - 1123) was a Persian poet, famous for his Rubaiyat form of poetry built upon quatrains. He was also a well-known philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, mystic and a free-thinker, who wondered about the impermanence of life, and man's relationship to God. He lived in a time period when fanaticism, orthodoxy and military demagogues controlled and dictated people's daily life. Through his poems, Khayyam encouraged people to break free from the socio-political and religious tyranny. Unfortunately, his poems could not be circulated openly due to a callous an intolerant environment. As a result, only few of his contemporaries had the chance to read and benefit from it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe doubted the existence of divine providence and the afterlife and chose to put his faith in a joyful appreciation of the fleeting and sensuous beauties of the material world to celebrate the idyllic nature and pleasures of living in a moment as below: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet not thy heart on any good or gain, \u003cbr\u003elife means but pleasure, \u003cbr\u003eor means but pain;\u003cbr\u003ewhen Time lets slip a little perfect hour, \u003cbr\u003eO take it - for it will not come again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKhayyam warned that if self-care is neglected and postponed to some obscure notion of 'tomorrow', the pleasure of living in the 'now' is irreversibly lost. He believed that each moment of life is complete in itself, by itself, and that the incompleteness manifests itself only in the 'mental state' of which we are not often aware. The natural world lives independently for itself, unattached to our feelings of pain and joy, and in Khayyam's view, acknowledging this liberating fact is the first step towards having a pleasant life. He said not to take things too seriously and to question existence of God and heaven: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrab life with both your hands, \u003cbr\u003esqueeze every bit it has to offer, \u003cbr\u003echerish it every day.\u003cbr\u003eFor what else is there? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome scholars and critics argue that the name of Omar Khayyam should \"be struck out from the history of Persian literature\" due to the lack of any material that could confidently be attributed to him. While it is certain that Khayyam wrote many quatrains, it is hardly possible, save in a few exceptional cases, to assert positively that he wrote any of those ascribed to him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe modern-day popularity of Khayyam is mainly due to the English translations of Edward FitzGerald (1859) from the Bodleian manuscript. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAshok K. Bhargava\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresident, Writers International Network Canada\u003cbr\u003eVancouver, BC\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730492420403,"sku":"9781961498167","price":24.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/fZUYGdzNWX9781961498167.webp?v=1763834194","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-year-of-the-poet-xi-february-2024-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}