Description: Composed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, "Gilgamesh" presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. In this new version, Kendall animates the latest scholarship with a contemporary poetic sensibility, inspired by the pagan worldview of the ancient work.
Review Quotes:
As Gilgamesh enters the domain of the classical-as it has for several decades now-each new generation looks for a way to bring it from its ur-world into the living present. Toward this end Stuart Kendall's is the exemplary version for our time, a reading that allows the mind to see what had been too long lost to us and what we so much need to make us fully human. This is the place to go for further sustenance. - Jerome Rothenberg