Chimera
$25.60
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2024
Summary
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 is called “a bold achievement….a studio wherein poems and other texts, other voices, become exhibited.”
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780811237826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0811237826 |
| Author: | Brian Sneeden, Phoebe Giannisi |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Imprint: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 111g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 132mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“Chimera is a book made of so much else besides words: goatskin, myth, pasture, time, dream, stone, history, to name a few; rumination, transit, touch, captivity, to name some others… In the center of Giannisi’s poetic frame, one encounters a serious and glimmering inquiry into the human-animal relationship.”–Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo “Los Angeles Review of Books”
Brian Sneeden
Phoebe Giannisi was born in Athens in 1964 and is the author of seven books of poetry, including Homerica (chosen by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017 in The Paris Review). She is a professor of architecture and cultural studies at the University of Thessaly.
Brian Sneeden is a poet, literary translator, and editor. His translations have received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and other recognitions.
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