Chimera - Couverture souple

Giannisi, Phoebe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811237826 ISBN 13 : 9780811237826

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024

Synopsis

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.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phoebe Giannisi was born in Athens in 1964 and is the author of seven books of poetry, including Homerica (chosen by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017 in The Paris Review). She is a professor of architecture and cultural studies at the University of Thessaly.<br /><br />Brian Sneeden is a poet, literary translator, and editor. His translations have received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and other recognitions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811237826
• ISBN 13: 9780811237826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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