Chimera

9 August 2024

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Phoebe Giannisi (Author), Brian Sneeden (Translator)

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Exploring motherhood, myth and “transhumance”, Chimera is a stunningly ambitious poetry volume by the award-winning Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi

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 centre 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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9780811237826

132 x 206 mm • 96 pages

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