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Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada)

Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada)

Dalglish, Cass

Paperback

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1962834670
ISBN13: 9781962834674
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Published: Feb 9 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
English:

A usurper has attacked the temples of Ur and Uruk and the priestly poet Enheduanna prays for help from Inanna, the god who has disappeared into the Land of No Return. If you were here, Inanna, you'd surround that big man in the sky, Enheduanna cries. This collection of poems is a jazz poetry rendition of ancient Iraqi pictographs pressed into clay thousands of years ago by Enheduanna, the first person in history-female or male-to sign her own text. Originally published only in English, Humming the Blues/Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada) is now a bilingual edition, with Cass Dalglish's interpretation of the sacking of Enheduanna's temples and the story of Inanna's journey to the Land of No Return told in parallel tales in both English and Spanish.

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