After Beowulf

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For fans of the creative translations of Mary Jo Bang and Kathy Acker For readers of classic literature who enjoy playful, loose retellings of classic books in the tradition of Jack Spicer's After Lorca and James Joyce's Ulysses This version of Beowulf fits in well with the trend of modern, feminist translations such as Emily Wilson's The Odyssey and Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf: A New Feminist Translation of the Epic Poem Markotic offers a contemporary take on Beowulf's language and, more unusually, the culture and character of the hero of this foundational text. Classic poetry continues to find new readers with the help of modernized translations, such as Mary Jo Bang's recent translations of Dante's Divine Comedy. Blurbs forthcoming