Upcoming bookness!
For those of you who have been following my adventures with Ištar's Descent to the Underworld, and hopefully even those who haven't, I have good news: Prime Books will be publishing my transliteration and translation of this epic and ritual text, along with notes and commentary, as a chapbook in either late 2005 or early 2006. In other words, Assyriological geekery galore—and either in the same chapbook or an accompanying volume, poetry and fiction of mine drawn from the Akkadian Ištar's Descent, and poetry and fiction based on the earlier Sumerian Inanna's Descent by the marvelous Catherynne M. Valente. (Just so nobody misses out on the Sumerological geekery either.) Two authors you love. Two goddesses you should know more about. And lots and lots of katabasis. How can you lose?
. . . and having just exhausted my quota of shameless self-pimpage for the year, I'm heading for bed.* See you all for the Tammuz festival.
*Cut for the usual kind of procrastination first.
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For those of you who have been following my adventures with Ištar's Descent to the Underworld, and hopefully even those who haven't, I have good news: Prime Books will be publishing my transliteration and translation of this epic and ritual text, along with notes and commentary, as a chapbook in either late 2005 or early 2006. In other words, Assyriological geekery galore—and either in the same chapbook or an accompanying volume, poetry and fiction of mine drawn from the Akkadian Ištar's Descent, and poetry and fiction based on the earlier Sumerian Inanna's Descent by the marvelous Catherynne M. Valente. (Just so nobody misses out on the Sumerological geekery either.) Two authors you love. Two goddesses you should know more about. And lots and lots of katabasis. How can you lose?
. . . and having just exhausted my quota of shameless self-pimpage for the year, I'm heading for bed.* See you all for the Tammuz festival.
*Cut for the usual kind of procrastination first.
( Read more... )
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