 | Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today. Ghareeb Iskander is an Iraqi poet living in London. He has published numerous collections of poems including, A Chariot of Illusion . His critical work includes Semiotic Trends in the Critique of Arab Poetry. |
