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Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada) - Cass Dalglish

Humming the Blues / Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada)

By: Cass Dalglish

Paperback | 9 February 2026

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English:

A usurper has attacked the temples of Ur and Uruk and the priestly poet Enheduanna prays for help from Inanna, the god who has disappeared into the Land of No Return. "If you were here, Inanna, you'd surround that big man in the sky," Enheduanna cries. This collection of poems is a jazz poetry rendition of ancient Iraqi pictographs pressed into clay thousands of years ago by Enheduanna, the first person in history-female or male-to sign her own text. Originally published only in English, Humming the Blues/Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada) is now a bilingual edition, with Cass Dalglish's interpretation of the sacking of Enheduanna's temples and the story of Inanna's journey to the Land of No Return told in parallel tales in both English and Spanish.

Spanish:

Un usurpador ha atacado los templos de Ur y Uruk, y la poeta sacerdotal Enheduanna ora por la ayuda de Inanna, la deidad que ha desaparecido en la Tierra sin Retorno. Enheduana suplica: "Si estuvieras aqu­ Inanna, rodear­as a ese hombre grande en el cielo". Esta colecci³n de poemas es una versi³n po©tica al estilo del jazz de pictograf­as iraqu­es antiguas estampadas en arcilla por Enheduana hace miles de a±os. Hist³ricamente, fue la primera persona-hombre o mujer-que firm³ su propio texto escrito. Publicada originalmente s³lo en ingl©s, Humming the Blues/Cantando los Blues (a boca cerrada) es ahora una edici³n biling¼e, con la interpretaci³n de Cass Dalglish del saqueo de los templos de Enheduanna y la historia del viaje de ida y vuelta de Inanna a la Tierra sin Retorno, contada ahora en relatos paralelos, ingl©s y espa±ol.

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