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. The story of a visionary
journey beyond the limits of human experience, Gilgamesh is a tale
of friendship, adventure, mortality, and loss. The legends it
collects ultimately informed Greek and Egyptian myths, Hebrew
Scriptures, and Islamic literature. Scholarly translations of
Gilgamesh often dilute the expressive force of the material through
overzealous erudition. Popular versions of the poem frequently
gloss over gaps in the text with accessible and comforting, but
ultimately falsely ecumenical language. In this new version, Stuart
Kendall animates the latest scholarship with a contemporary poetic
sensibility, inspired by the pagan worldview of the ancient work.
Transcriptions of all of the available tablets and tales have been
harnessed to present a fluid and holistic Gilgamesh, true to the
archaic mind. This Gilgamesh is a poem of environmental encounter
and, ultimately, ecological disaster. It is a contemporary poem
rooted in the origins of our civilization, a record of the first
break of light at the dawn of our consciousness.
"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
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