{"product_id":"chimera","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eChimera\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePhoebe Giannisi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811237826\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Chimera | Phoebe Giannisi | Paperback | 9780811237826 | New | Poetry 1686337","offer_id":50803904839938,"sku":"1686337","price":30.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51VPWbc0p0L.jpg?v=1792422536","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/chimera","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}