HAIKHL AND GJINJI a new translation by Scott Barnes
images by Aquillapriya
By Scott Barnes aquill
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Category: Poetry
Tags: art photography, world cultures, women poets, lost treasure, inattention deficit, ancient literature, silk routes, love stories, burma disaster, spice routes, the Voynich Manuscript, Caravan, poetry, mantra, travel, translations, China, Japan, India, Calcutta, Kali, slavery, trade, metacognition, holons, cryptology, anthropology
A new translation of a centuries-old story of doomed lovers, minus the lacquer gloss. Haikhl and Gjinji lifts the veil on the ancient world of slaves, spices, and lethal nawabs- as seen by a self-realized artist defiant to the ages.
Features twenty- one handtints by California artist Aquillapriya with a new English translation from the 1671 folio edition. An artist appreciation by N. Rajanathan accompanies the text.
2008 AQantiquities. An infrasound publication. Signed copies available but quantities are strictly limited.
"(This is) as close as we may ever come to the real Gjinji. A superreal translation of both the tertial past and the ingressive future so many have predicted. Extraordinary." --- Geeshie Wiley
"Rescues Gjinji-san from the corridors of speculative orientology and brings to mind the myriad of current tragedies unfoldling in the far east" -- Moon Sulk
Square 7x7 inches (18x18 cm) 20 pages
Published: May 13, 2008
