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Acknowledgments For their assistance in obtaining copies of the illustrations for this volume , and the authorization to use them, I would like to thank the following individuals and institutions: Melissa Acosta and Steven Ferguson of Special Collections, Princeton University Library; Tricia Smith of Art Resource; Andrea Fisher of Artist Rights Society; and Dr. Corinna Höper and Ilona Lütken of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. It is a special pleasure to express my appreciation to Hillary Major, Michel Garneau and Derrek Hines for their generous permission to use lines from their copyrighted poetry. I am also indebted to the following individuals and publishers for permission to reprint: Lines from Rudolf Pannwitz, Das namenlose Werk. Munich: Hans Carl, 1920. Reprinted with permission of Fachverlag Hans Carl GmbH, Nuremberg. Lines from F. L. Lucas, Gilgamesh: King of Erech. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Reprinted courtesy of Andrew Lindesay of Golden Cockerel Press Ltd. xvi Acknowledgments Lines from D. G. Bridson, The Quest of Gilgamesh. © 1972 by D. G. Bridson. Reprinted courtesy of Sebastian Carter of Rampant Lions Press. Lines from Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Works by Charles Olson published during his lifetime are copyright © the Estate of Charles Olson. Used with permission and courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries. Lines from Michel Garneau, Gilgamesh: Théâtre. Montréal-Nord: VLB, 1976. Reprinted courtesy of Michel Garneau. All Louis Zukofsky material © Paul Zukofsky; the material may not be reproduced, quoted, or used in any manner whatsoever without the explicit and specific permission of the copyright holder. Lines from Peter Huchel, “Die Neunte Stunde,” from Gesammelte Werke. © 1984 by Suhrkamp Verlag. Reprinted with permission of Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH & Co. Lines from Stephen Mitchell, Gilgamesh: A New English Translation. © 2000 by Stephen Mitchell. Reprinted with permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. Lines from Edwin Morgan, The Play of Gilgamesh. © 2005 by Edwin Morgan. Reprinted with permission of Carcanet Press. Lines from Hillary Major, Gilgamesh Remembers a Dream. Hollins University Album, spring 2000; rpt. in Benjamin R. Foster, ed., The Epic of Gilgamesh (New York: Norton, 2001). Reprinted courtesy of Hillary Major. Lines from Anne-Marie Beeckman, Gilgameš. © 2008 by Pierre Mainard . Reprinted by courtesy of Pierre Mainard. Excerpt from GILGAMESH, translated by Herbert Mason. Copyright © 1970, renewed 1998 by Herbert Mason. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Lines from Raoul Schrott, Gilgamesch. Epos. Nachdichtung und Neuübersetzung von Raoul Schrott. Mit einem wissenschaftlichen Anhang von Robert Rollinger und Wolfgang Schretter. © 2001 Carl Hanser Verlag München. Reprinted by courtesy of Carl Hanser Verlag. Lines from Derrek Hines, Gilgamesh. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002; and from Derrek Hines, Gilgamesh: The Play. London: Oberon, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of Derrek Hines. Gilgamesh among Us ...

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