The Hero Enkidu (Via Folios), by Lewis Turco
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Poetry. "Lewis Turco... appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote THE HERO ENKIDU at white heat in his eightieth year. The inspiration itself is of the kind that, once someone has come up with it, makes us wonder why no one ever thought of it before, because in a number of ways Enkidu is a more interesting and attractive figure than Gilgamesh."—Michael Palma, from the Introduction
The Hero Enkidu (Via Folios), by Lewis Turco- Amazon Sales Rank: #3108814 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .25" w x 5.98" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 102 pages
About the Author Lewis Putnam Turco is a prolific author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the founder of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and the creative writing program at the State University of New York College at Oswego. Turco's first book of criticism, Visions and Revisions of American Poetry, won the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America, and his A BOOK OF FEARS: POEMS, with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual Bordighera Poetry Prize. He is also the author of three additional titles published by Bordighera Press: SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE: A REMEMBRANCE (1998), LA FAMIGLIA: THE FAMILY (2009), and THE HERO ENKIDU (2015). Turco received the John Ciardi Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Another tour de force-- in service of a great cause. Oh By Clarinda Harriss I speak with a forked tongue: one fork is that of a person immersed in Medieval literature, hence very much interested in the epic tradition; one fork is that of a person so sophomoric she had never been able to hear or see "Enkidu" without singing "inky dinky parlay voo" all day long. But thanks to Lew Turco's masterly Enkidu has been rescued from his thousands of years as merely an epic sidekick in the first epic poem ever written. Thank you, Lew. Another tour de force-- in service of a great cause. Oh, and great fun to read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An Ancient Story Reborn By Martha M Grout, MD, MD(H) Pure literary gold arrived in our mailbox yesterday afternoon in the form of your newest book THE HERO ENKIDU. You were absolutely correct in your prediction: I LOVE all you have done with this ancient story and you have certainly revitalized it for all future readers. The accolades are well deserved. Congratulations and best wishes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Turco's New Take on Oldest Extant Epic By rfh The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh is five millenia old. Such an antiquity doesn't seem likely to speak to readers today, in any measure. But it is a story examining the nature of friendship, the nature of loss, and the troubling question of human mortality. It is therefore as relevant to modern readers as it was in the beginning, when it existed first as an oral tale, and then when writing came along, as cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets. Gilgamesh has heretofore been the hero, the epic's central figure.The story's emphasis has of course been on the semi-divine king, over the centuries in various renderings. What Lewis Turco does infuses the old tale with warm new energy by placing the emphasis on Enkidu, the wholly mortal and vulnerable companion to the king. In the course of the tale, Enkidu grows: from the innocent playmate of the animals, through experience, to become a seasoned and trusted warrior and leader. When Gilgamesh is set on destroying the ogre Humbaba, Enkidu advises him against it, but takes the dangerous lead position when they undertake the enterprise. The elders advise Gilgamesh: Let Enkidu be in the van And you will be safe Shamash has sworn. Using the Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse form, Turco gives the tale the feel of antiquity, but a fresh antiquity, not that of Homer or the Bible. The story races along—it never lags--and that speed is due in part to the hemistitch line pattern. Much of the delight of the rest is due to the splendid diction, the exacting choices, of a peerless poet. And forth they marched together, the heroes And their warrior army to find the spot Whre Humbaba dwelt in the Cedar Forest where Enkidu had been born ...
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