The Epic of Gilgamesh
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609807936 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The most complete Gilgamesh in translation--including the new discoveries from tablet V.THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the Uhr epic--the hero's journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. The reader is slowed down by the artwork and visual jokes and the artist's wry hat-tippings to various masters (Crumb and Gilbert Shelton alongside Schultz and Capp, Popeye and Krazy Kat, Uderzo's Astérix and Hergé's Tintin), and then, once the reading pace has shifted into lower gear, having all these aspects complementarily drawn out, makes for an especially satisfying counterpoint to the low-key, the wise and cynical and morally sophistica
DIXON is known for the autobiographical series And Then There Was Rock, "true stories about playing in a crappy loser band." With collaborator Eric Knisley, he produced Mickey Death and the Winds of Impotence, for which they won a Xeric Award. Kevin lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and their three cats. Recent translations inclu
His fiction and nonfiction has been published in Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The American Prospect, among others. About the AuthorKENT H. Recent translations include Mallarmé's L'Après-Midi d'un Faun and Rilke's "Leichen-Wäsche." In collaboration with Japanese students, he has translated previously unpublished hibakusha (A-bomb survivor poetry), in American Poetry Review and in Luna: Journal of Poetry and Translation. He teaches Creative Writing at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he lives with his writer wife.KEVIN H. Kent was educated at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. Kevin has done cover art for small presses in Chapel Hill NC; run comic series in local newspapers; hosted 'underground' talk radio shows; and contributed the cover to the f