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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Erech/Uruk - Iraq Comments

Rating: ★5.0

We're told that writing was invented here:
lists of weapons, foodstuffs, kings, kinsmen,
laws and penalties.
Here lived the first Man-God, Gilgamesh.
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Anthony Weir

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Sonny Rainshine 23 April 2006

Powerful and chilling. Makes me think of Shelley's Ozymandias: '...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

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Lawrence Beck 23 April 2006

This is a fine, spare, melodic poem.

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