Chimera

By: Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden (Translator)

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Paperback | 25 September 2024 | Edition Number 1

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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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An intimate and utterly feminine perspective on language and regeneration.--Jessica Gigot "The New York Times"
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"
Giannisi turns the quotidian into the magical in poems that push against the shifting present moment.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Giannisi's work glitters with such fragments: minimal, direct and dense with loss.--Max Sydney Smith "Review31"
Sneeden is a meticulous translator and a poet in his own right. He brings Phoebe Giannisi's work to life with immediacy and conviction.-- "Edmund Keeley"

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