Chimera (eBook)

Phoebe Giannisi (Autor)

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2024
96 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3783-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Exploringmotherhood, myth, and transhumance, Chimera is a stunningly ambitious poetryvolume by the award-winningGreek poet Phoebe GiannisiFINALIST FOR THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONIn 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 songlocating 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2024
• Übersetzer: Brian Sneeden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Ancient Greek • animal husbandry • Archival • balkan lit • balkan literature • Balkans • Chimera • Contemporary poetry • giannisi • glitters • goat-herding • Goats • Greece • greek lit • Greek Literature • Greek poetry • immediacy • metamorphosis • Motherhood • Myth • mytho-historical • Nomadic • Oral tradition • phoebe giannisi • Shepherd • transhumance • Vanguard • Vlachs
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-3783-4 / 0811237834
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3783-3 / 9780811237833