GilgameshA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace. Sophus Helles new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read.Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece.Michael Dirda, Washington Post Gilgamesh is a Babylonian story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with death;