Goatsong, 9781804271896
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Myths and bodies intertwine in this transformative song of goats and life.
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    300 pages

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    6 November 2025

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Summary

Goatsong: Where Myth and Body Intertwine

The ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat (τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi’s Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body.

In Giannisi’s language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781804271896
ISBN-10:1804271896
Author:Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden
Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions
Imprint:Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:300
Release Date:6 November 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:197mm x 134mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘A book that is also an ecosystem, full of impossible crossings and alive with unexpected communions.’— Fani Avramopoulou, Antiphony (praise for Chimera)

‘Some of the best of her lyric writing… strange and captivating.’— Publishers Weekly (praise for Chimera)

‘Giannisi is unquestionably herself within a vanguard of Greek poets for whom self-awareness and honesty have become second nature.’— Shon Arieh-Lerer, World Literature Today (praise for Chimera)

‘An intimate and utterly feminine perspective on language and regeneration.’— Jessica Gigot, The New York Times (praise for Chimera)

About The Author

Phoebe Giannisi

Phoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, and co-editor of the literary journal frmk. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler, Gregor Laschen, Jesper Svenbro and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos, Greece.

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