{"id":160555,"date":"2022-07-08T01:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T05:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=160555"},"modified":"2022-07-08T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:29:12","slug":"more-summer-issue-poets-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/08\/more-summer-issue-poets-recommend\/","title":{"rendered":"More Summer Issue Poets Recommend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_160557\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/luftbild_nikolaos_strand_hydra_griechenland_44150036034.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160557\" class=\"wp-image-160557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/luftbild_nikolaos_strand_hydra_griechenland_44150036034.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/luftbild_nikolaos_strand_hydra_griechenland_44150036034.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/luftbild_nikolaos_strand_hydra_griechenland_44150036034-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/luftbild_nikolaos_strand_hydra_griechenland_44150036034-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-160557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Agios Nikolaos Beach in Hydra, Greece. Photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Luftbild_Nikolaos_Strand_Hydra,_Griechenland_(44150036034).jpg\">dronepicr<\/a>. Licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>This week, we bring you reviews from two of our issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/240\">no. 240<\/a> contributors. If you enjoy these, why not read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/06\/15\/our-summer-issue-poets-recommend\/\">recommendations<\/a> from four more of our Summer issue poets?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was watching the sunset on the Greek island of Hydra with my best friend when I suddenly said, \u201cI think I hate Henry Miller.\u201d I\u2019d just raced through <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-colossus-of-maroussi\/9780811218573\"><em>The Colossus of Maroussi <\/em><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780802131782\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropic of Cancer<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So, as my friend and I perched on rough stones by the sea, I forced her to listen to my least favorite passages from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropic of Cancer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Miller brags about his penis\u2014\u201ca bone in my prick six inches long\u201d! He catalogs what seems like \u201cevery cunt I grab hold of.\u201d At a bar, he ejaculates on a stranger\u2019s dress. (She\u2019s \u201csore as hell.\u201d) In 1934, when <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropic <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was published, this ecstatic obscenity could have been appealing; in 2022, reading it reminds me of being trapped in the bathroom queue at a party next to a coked-up man with a PhD and a browser tab permanently open to PornHub. The book feels, in Miller\u2019s words, like \u201ca thick tide of semen flooding the gutters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think I hate Henry Miller.\u201d<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I think<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Why did I qualify? Well, there is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropic\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s bravura opening. And despite the ethnographic gaze that saturates <em>The C<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>olo<\/em>ssus of Maroussi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, certain episodes of hilarity delighted me: the saga of Miller\u2019s diarrhea during his visit to Crete, for example, in which he shits his pants, then shits at \u201cthe bottom of a moat near a dead horse swarming with bottle flies\u201d and embarks on an oft-frustrated quest for \u201csoggy rice with a little lemon juice in it\u201d to quiet his bowels, all while touring ruins and being plied with victuals that are decidedly disquieting to his bowels. There are also passages of arresting beauty, where the writing has the feeling not of mania but of deep dreaming. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miller\u2019s first approach to the island of Poros can only be quoted in full; it is perfect.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the moment redeem the mass of it? Can I recommend <em>The C<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>o<\/em>lossus of Maroussi <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the sake of one gemlike isle? The question engenders other questions: what, if anything, redeems a work of literature? Is the language of redemption even appropriate? What about the language of possession? Yours, mine. Give, take. In college, listening to people debate that problematic, shifting thing called \u201cthe canon,\u201d I privately thought that the books included in it are far weirder than either its defenders or detractors usually admit. I\u2019ve rarely felt that what I read \u201cexcludes\u201d me: no matter who wrote it or when, it is mine for the taking, or leaving. I cling to that feeling even now\u2014even when I read \u201cwhile it\u2019s all very nice to know that a woman has a mind, literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Elisa Gonzalez, author of \u201c<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7903\/in-cyprus-elisa-gonzalez\"><b>In Cyprus<\/b><\/a><b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After teaching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more than thirty years, I have only grown increasingly enamored with the myth\u2019s iconic narratives, which depict the age-old, all too human desire for immortality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The adventures of Gilgamesh\u2014a real Sumerian king who ruled between 2900\u20132350 BC\u2014are many, and take place in both the upper and lower worlds. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 1600\u20131155 BC, they were carved into clay tablets by a scribe.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Herbert Mason\u2019s translation of the myth, which captures the pathos of Gilgamesh\u2019s heroic journey so memorably,\u00a0 inspired \u201cTablet,\u201d my poem that appears in the summer issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Paris Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I was particularly moved by the following commentary on mourning that\u2019s delivered by the chorus in the aftermath of Gilgamesh\u2019s dear friend Enkidu\u2019s death:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For being human holds the special grief<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of privacy within the universe\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That yearns and waits to be retouched\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By someone who can take away<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The memory of death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is Gilgamesh\u2019s grief which allows him to transform from a misogynistic demigod\/king into a fully human character who finds a way to accept his own mortality. During this time of worldwide grief following the pandemic, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gilgamesh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a beautiful reminder of the universality of that most tragic foundation of our humanity. In my apocryphal poem, I imagine Gilgamesh learning how to live, through his \u201cspecial grief of privacy,\u201d in the present: as a wise comedian, lying contentedly at last in his hammock \u201cdreaming and waking, waking and dreaming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Chard deNiord, author of \u201c<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7888\/tablet-chard-deniord\"><b>Tablet<\/b><\/a><b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend The Epic of Gilgamesh, and\u2014audaciously\u2014Henry 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