TY - SOUND AU - Headley,Maria Dahvana AU - Jackson,JD TI - Beowulf: a new translation SN - 9781250232182 AV - ICD 99492 U1 - 811/.6 23 PY - 2020///] CY - New York, NY PB - Macmillan Audio KW - Beowulf, KW - Grendel KW - Beowulf KW - Monsters KW - Poetry KW - Dragons KW - Epic poetry, English (Old) KW - Translations into English KW - Epic poetry KW - lcgft KW - Poetry readings (Sound recordings) KW - Literary readings KW - Audiobooks N1 - Title from disc label; Recordable compact discs; Read by JD Jackson ; introduction read by the author N2 - "Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf--and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world--there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us."--Publisher ER -