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it all hinges on your point of view
Some stories are her own
A new version of the Middle English poem Pearl
precise and vividly memorable – listening to the ‘machine of spring/with all your levers thrown to max’
and how we how we embody our times
Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis Toby Martinez de las Rivas it all hinges on yourJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgameshs city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the worlds oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new generation
