{"product_id":"chimera-2","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION\u003c\/strong\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","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833681850573,"sku":"9780811237826","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_cbfd4f5e-c26e-4c9a-b506-40860ddb86d1.jpg?v=1790892794","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/chimera-2","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}