Chimera

Title: Chimera
Author: Phoebe Giannisi
Poetry: 1686337
ISBN: 9780811237826
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

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."