{"product_id":"chimera-9780811237826","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eChimera\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eKathimerini\u003c\/em\u003e calls \"a bold achievement....a studio wherein poems and other texts, other voices, become exhibited.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811237826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Phoebe Gianissi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145863196853,"sku":"9780811237826","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_52761ce2-5062-43a1-b48d-0772af9b1b28.jpg?v=1715698541","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chimera-9780811237826","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}