In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the worlds oldest epic awardwinning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to recreatingthe power... » 

In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the worlds oldest epic awardwinning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to recreatingthe power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years agoin the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh the semidivine ruler of Uruk is a largerthanlife bully andabuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king the gods create thewild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friendsthey defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilgameshface to face with both loss and death itself. Hines energizes this timelesstale with vivid and electrifyingly modern images from the goddess Ishtarcracking the sound barrier to a battlefield nightmare of spectral snipers andexploding hand grenades to the CATscan image of a dying friend. The themes oflove and friendship grief despair and hope had their first great expressionin this story and this dazzling new interpretation brings us into its thrallagain. «