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Beowulf Markotic Nicole CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD hw t, another Beowulf translation? Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and…
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CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD hw t, another Beowulf translation? Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and monstrous backlash, a Medi val fracas that only the eponymous Beowulf can quash. Not exactly...Welcome to Denmark's Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, Saxon's cradle-made monster.
He's the young, fit, male, self-sacrificing protagonist-interloper who will fight any monster to protect his people. Sailing across the whaleroads, he arrives to "quell and queltch and quatch the Grendel beast."Beowulf, that still-recognizable hero, embodies a "blank" function, a motive-driven yet motiveless megastar. Or to defend strangers.
Or to gain a reputation. Or because he just really wants to...In