Notes
Price of book not on dust jacket; source is Amazon.com. Cover image is a Sumerian headdress in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jacket design by Jenny Volvovski. Book design by Dustin Kilgore. With illustrations. Poems are new translations from Sumerian of the first known author (circa 2300 BCE), concerning the goddess Inana, the Sun God, and other mythological figures. The book has an introduction, the poems, essays, and appendices: chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index.