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- Author: Phoebe Gianissi
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN-10: 0811237826
- ISBN-13: 9780811237826
- Format: 12.7 x 19.1 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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In her third collection in English, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics that blends field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The center of Chimera engages with a three-year field research project on the goat-herding practices of the Vlachs, a nomadic people of Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans, who speak their own language. In these poems, day-to-day activities such as shearing and kidding mix with snippets of conversations, oral tradition, and song--locating a larger story in this ancient marriage between humans and animals. As Giannisi writes, "the ancient Greek word for tragedy is a compound of two words: "goat" and "song". Through her poetry and fieldwork, this mytho-historical connection between metamorphosis and utterance takes form in what the Greek newspaper Kathimerini calls "a bold achievement....a studio wherein poems and other texts, other voices, become exhibited."
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- Author: Phoebe Gianissi
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN-10: 0811237826
- ISBN-13: 9780811237826
- Format: 12.7 x 19.1 x 1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
In her third collection in English, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics that blends field recordings, state archives, and ancient texts. The center of Chimera engages with a three-year field research project on the goat-herding practices of the Vlachs, a nomadic people of Northern Greece and the Southern Balkans, who speak their own language. In these poems, day-to-day activities such as shearing and kidding mix with snippets of conversations, oral tradition, and song--locating a larger story in this ancient marriage between humans and animals. As Giannisi writes, "the ancient Greek word for tragedy is a compound of two words: "goat" and "song". Through her poetry and fieldwork, this mytho-historical connection between metamorphosis and utterance takes form in what the Greek newspaper Kathimerini calls "a bold achievement....a studio wherein poems and other texts, other voices, become exhibited."
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