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Availability:In StockContributor:Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden (Translator)Publish date:2024-07-09Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811237826ISBN-10:811237826UPC:9780811237826Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Animals & Nature, PlacesSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCJYQ94ZEQ

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 shepherding mix with snippets of conversations, oral tradition, and song--locating a larger story in this ancient marriage between humans and animals. 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."


Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811237826ISBN-10:811237826UPC:9780811237826Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, EuropeanBook Topic:Animals & Nature, PlacesSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCJYQ94ZEQ
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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