Wolfe and Being Ninety: Old West Monsters and A Texas Poet's Life

In this bold adaptation of Beowulf, Donald Mace Williams reimagines the epic tale in the setting of the Old West, transforming it into a powerful meditation on humanity’s encroachment upon the natural world.

This imaginative retelling unfolds on an isolated ranch in late nineteenth-century Texas, where a mysterious and beguiling creature is discovered to have slaughtered cattle—and a laborer. The fate of the town's locals is placed upon an outsider: a calm, confident young man named Billy W...