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Maria Dahvana Headley, JD Jackson: Beowulf (AudiobookFormat, 2020, Macmillan Audio) 5 stars

A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere …

perfect audiobook for this translation

5 stars

This was a delightful translation to listen to--Headley's sense of rhythm and storytelling turns into bro-slinging narrative of blood and kinship and loss (and hoo boy does Headley do a good job with keeping at the front all the misogyny that crops up in the poem). I might try reading Headley's translation at some point. For now, I'm really glad I listened to it.