Apparition Poems vs Gilgamesh: Which Should You Read?

Apparition Poems Adam Fieled · 2006 6 pages · ≈ 7 min · Moderate

Apparition Poems, by American artist Adam Fieled, is an epic in fragments, and includes poems which run the formal and thematic gamut- sonnets, monologues, lyrics, meta-poems, and poems of philosophical inquiry. It was…

Gilgamesh Stephen Mitchell · 2004 ★★★★☆ 4.0 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate

"Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and…