Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis AK Blakemore His style is one of

His style is one of extraordinary grandeur and ambition…a monumental drive

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this anthology plunges us between lionfish

working for a summer as an assistant lock-keeper

the poems that comprise A Woman of Property draw formal and imaginative boundaries against boundless mortal threat

Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis AK Blakemore His style is one ofJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgameshs city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the worlds oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new generation