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Chimera

Chimera

Sneeden, Brian
Giannisi, Phoebe

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0811237826
ISBN13: 9780811237826
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

FINALIST FOR THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION

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.

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