{"product_id":"chimera","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Phoebe Giannisi, Phoivē Giannisē\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e FINALIST FOR THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION \u003c\/p\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 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132604760233,"sku":"PHBK-9780811237826","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/22762223482476.jpg?v=1780125325","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/chimera","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}