Beyond Beowulf: Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife
In this novel, the women control everything.
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Posts Tagged: beowulf
The Torment of Queer Literature
Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Old Friends Or Lovers
I was becoming awed by the wide horizon of the speech that arose out of an individual life lived in a single era and generation. I was becoming attracted to the writer’s creativity.
...moreThe Bro-ification of Beowulf
BEOWULF: yeah actually I once held my breath for like a million hours it was crazy my friends weren’t even worried because I fight guys underwater like all the time Over at The Toast, Mallory Ortberg re-imagines the classic literary hero Beowulf in all the trappings and dirtbag swagger of a bro.
...moreResurrecting a Monster
Forty-one years after his death, JRR Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf has been published by his son Christopher. Tolkien translated Beowulf early in his career, yet never published it. In the New Yorker, Joan Acocella speculates on the reason: Another possible explanation for Tolkien’s putting “Beowulf” aside—a theory that has been advanced in the case of […]
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