Gilgamesh Hines energizes this timeless tale with vivid and electrifyingly modern images, from the goddess Ishtar cracking the sound barrier, to a battlefield nightmare of spectral snipers and exploding hand g
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| Title | : | Gilgamesh |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (400 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400077338 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2004-10-19 |
| Genre | : |
In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilgamesh face to face with both loss and death itself. Hines energizes this timeless tale with vivid and electrifyingly modern images, from the goddess Ishtar cracking the sound barrier, to a battlefield nightmare of spectral snipers and exploding hand grenades, to the CAT-scan image of a dying friend. The themes of love and friendship, grief, despair, and hope had their first great expression in this story, and this dazzling new int
Editorial : From Booklist What are paparazzi, CAT scans, hyperspace, and jelly roll doing in the world's oldest literary story? Nothing good, some may feel, especially if they don't take seriously Hines' stated intent "to recapture for the modern reader some of the vigor and excitement the original audience must have felt" for the third-millennium B.C.E. tale of the giant Gilgamesh, his friend Enkidu, their exploits, Enkidu's death, and Gilgamesh's quest for immortality and subsequent resignation to human limitations. For Hines, giving the story renewed impact means a total rewrite in punchy free verse that incorporates dialect passages and the odd neologism as well as modern jargon. The results are racy, flippant, and sometimes perverse, as when Hines completely elides the old poem's thousand-years-before-Genesis account of a worldwide flood. Apparently the flood episode grants more power to the gods than Hines can stomach, at least if he shares the opinion he gives the dying Enkidu: that his and
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