Rubáiyát of Gomer-I-Am All ages 2007 (revised)

2007 (revised)

American Book Award winner

She feels the magic of the place her family comes from through her Babi Ba’s colorful descriptions of India—from the warm smell of spices to the swish-swish sound of a rustling sari

She now serves as Associate Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School

Rubáiyát of Gomer-I-Am All ages 2007 (revised)Little is known about the Rubiyt of Gomer I Am, a recently discovered trove of over 500 medically themed quatrains in the style of Edward FitzGerald's Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. The poems, cached in a battered metal box in the basement stacks of a major medical library, reveal glimpses of the life and thoughts of an anonymous self described gomerGomer I Aman aging, war scarred, alcoholic academic. Questions abound. Are the poems memoir or fiction, private