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- PublisherFSG
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0374110034
- ISBN 13 9780374110031
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Translation. Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry Picked for Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction in Translation of 2020 Named a Book of the Year by NPR Vox and The New Statesman Picked for Loyalty Books Holiday ListA new feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the muchbuzzedabout novel The Mere WifeBrash and belligerent lunatic and invigorating with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and socialmedia shorthand Ruth Franklin The New YorkerThe author of the crazycool Beowulfinspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale Barbara VanDenburgh USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaneys translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the translation that continues to torment highschool students around the worldthere is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine justice is rarely served and dragons live among usA man seeks to prove himself as a hero A monster seeks silence in his territory A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son A dragon ends it all The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelists eye toward gender genre and historyBeowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment powerful men seeking to become more powerful and one woman seeking justice for her child but this version brings new context to an old story While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. Seller Inventory # DADAX0374110034
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