BeowulfSeamus Heaney (translation) Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

It would be like describing some incredible grapes you once ate

a backyard skunk—McSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day

part bibliophilic anthem

friendships

melancholy and a bravura kind of stupidity

Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses

Comprehensively told

and earnest

literary histories — these four poets talk to each other as makers and friends about the possibilities that poetry enables now

tragic catastrophes of current black existence--London knife crime

Beginning with the image of the small white monkeys

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