Word: gilgamesh
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...mocked in a substantial third section subtitled “Expendable Chapters,” the literary equivalent of a DVD bonus disc. This segment features additional scenes, stream-of-consciousness monologues, an eclectic collection of quotations, a list of acknowledgements (including everyone from Jelly Roll Morton to Gilgamesh), and something called “Morelliana”—dense metaphysical excerpts from the Serpent Club’s favorite philosopher, Morelli, whose authorial pronouncements often make him a stand-in for Cortázar himself...
Damrosch says he loves to find unexpected connections between distant writers. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, a recent publication that was his first book for a popular audience, called on the examination of cultural linkages as a response to the Iraq War. “I was impatient with the loose talk about a clash of civilizations,” he says. “I show that if you go back far enough, there is one civilization...
...Love in the Time of War,” is a series of poems written in loose sonnet form. Komunyakaa starts by evoking the savage war of primitive man (“An obsidian ax. A lion-skin drum”) and works his way through ancient war, through Gilgamesh, through Cain and Abel, through the visceral, bloody war of the past, to the darker and more terrifying present of torpedoes and secret wars...
...Fertile Crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was home to the first known systems of writing, irrigation and mathematics. Cuneiform was stamped on clay tablets to record early works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh...
...addition to selections from the Odes and the Epistles, Ferry also read a passage from his translation of the Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, which tells of a trip to the underworld reminiscent of the Western epic traditions. There was also a special treat for Vergilians in the audience as Ferry read a passage from his yet to be completed and published translation of the Georgics. Ferry premised this selection with the humorous remark that Virgil must have read Paradise Lost, since the Georgics as he reads them constitute in some respects a work about men’s struggling through life...