Excerpt from Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason, copyright © 1998, Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Lyrics quoted from “Livin’ Man” by Henri Lanoë, from the Twilight Zone episode “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
Interior illustrations adapted by Isaac Marion from sources in the public domain.
Jacket design by Jeff Miller at Faceout Studios
Author photograph by Juliann Itter