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In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the The Epic of Gilgamesh. Iskander’s modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life.

Gilgameshs Snake and Other Poems

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      Publisher: MP-SYR Syracuse University P
      Publication Date: 3/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815610717, 978-0815610717
      ISBN10: 0815610718

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      Book Synopsis
      In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the The Epic of Gilgamesh. Iskander’s modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life.

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