The Hero Enkidu
Lewis Turco, on the other hand, 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.
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The Hero Enkidu
Lewis Turco, on the other hand, 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.
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The Hero Enkidu

The Hero Enkidu

by Lewis Turco
The Hero Enkidu

The Hero Enkidu

by Lewis Turco

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Lewis Turco, on the other hand, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599540986
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Publication date: 06/01/2015
Pages: 102
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)

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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