{"product_id":"chimera-by-phoebe-giannisi-9780811237826","title":"Chimera","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe centre 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough 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\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072150651116,"sku":"9780811237826","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22762223482476.jpg?v=1765082281","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/chimera-by-phoebe-giannisi-9780811237826","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}