{"product_id":"chimera-paperback-5","title":"Chimera - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhoebe Giannisi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Sneeden\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42152920023175,"sku":"9780811237826","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/87fac954ff99f05a541b7b2d6bc24788.webp?v=1733217442","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/chimera-paperback-5","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}