{"product_id":"chimera-10","title":"Chimera","description":"In 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 centre 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.”","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729356267864,"sku":"9780811237826","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780811237826.jpg?v=1776786326","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/chimera-10","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}