Gilgamesh is Derrek Hines's version of the Gilgamesh Epic - not so much a translation as a vibrant and vigorous reimagining of the world's first book, which should take its place alongside Heaney's Beowulf ...
Adam Newey, New Statesman
[Hines] has taken liberties with the epic poem and emerged with a radical, but alluring new poem of his own... a portrait of masculine belligerence, cloven in two
San Francisco Chronicle
Impressive, consistent... packed with good things
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Gilgamesh is Derrek Hines's version of the Gilgamesh Epic - not so much a translation as a vibrant and vigorous reimagining of the world's first book, which should take its place alongside Heaney's Beowulf ...
Adam Newey, New Statesman
[Hines] has taken liberties with the epic poem and emerged with a radical, but alluring new poem of his own... a portrait of masculine belligerence, cloven in two
San Francisco Chronicle
Impressive, consistent... packed with good things
Christoppher Logue
Gilgamesh is Derrek Hines's version of the Gilgamesh Epic - not so much a translation as a vibrant and vigorous reimagining of the world's first book, which should take its place alongside Heaney's Beowulf ...
Adam Newey, New Statesman
[Hines] has taken liberties with the epic poem and emerged with a radical, but alluring new poem of his own... a portrait of masculine belligerence, cloven in two