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Poets often explore the mind/body connection through the medium of words-how love, parenthood, and simple acts such as folding paper airplanes become the lens through which we determine the value-the size-of human existence. Poems too small to read? I think not! Award-winning poet Jeremy Downes's infinitely large volume of obser-vations, cries from the heart, and wordplay gives us space to savor-from the tiniest moment to the most expansive co...

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Examining a diverse array of texts from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's Osmeros , from the Homeric epics to H.D.'s Helen in Egypt , this book develops a broadened, inclusive tradition of epic poetry, demonstrating the continuities of that tradition across dramatic discontinuities in time, place, worldview, and technology.

The Female Homer opens with simple questions: Are there any women's epic poems? If so, what are the central characteristics of these epics and how do they relate to the traditional vision of epic poetry as male-authored and masculinist, as powerful and patriarchal? The book explores relations among women's epic poems over a great span from the ancient Sumerian Descent of Inanna to Rita Dove, from the oral epics of the Russian bylinists to cont...