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Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49850072596753,"sku":"CIN0811230236G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51155306709265,"sku":"GOR012733160","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52889161597201,"sku":"CIN0811230236LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811230236.jpg?v=1750745734"},{"product_id":"chimera-book-phoebe-giannisi-9780811237826","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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50937849774353,"sku":"NGR9780811237826","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008000950545,"sku":"NIN9780811237826","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52901334679825,"sku":"CIN0811237826LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811237826.jpg?v=1751201985"},{"product_id":"goatsong-book-phoebe-giannisi-9781804271896","title":"Goatsong","description":"Spanning fifteen years of composition,Goatsongis the culmination of Giannisis vision of chimeric poetics: an evocative and ambitious polyphonic exploration of desire, ecology, myth and motherhood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51793128358161,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51793128587537,"sku":"NGR9781804271896","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52654965817617,"sku":"NLS9781804271896","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53243733737745,"sku":"GOR014827529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781804271896.jpg?v=1760176365"},{"product_id":"homerica-book-phoebe-giannisi-9781954218413","title":"Homerica","description":"The first English translation of one of Greece's foremost poetic voices, now in a revised second edition, offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis. The mythic characters and scenes of HOMERICA never feel otherworldly-rather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian Sneeden's masterful translation captures the Delphic rhythms of Giannisi's oracular poems, which rarely travel in a straight line but rather glide across multiple threads of time, like a loom interweaving strands of the mythological past. HOMERICA was the first book to introduce Giannisi's voice to English-language readers and this second edition includes a new preface by Eleni Sikelianos and a translator's note. \\\\ \"Giannisi's poetry is a wonderful combination of the classical and the underground avant-garde. Trained both in architecture and Ancient Greek, her poems tackle the problem of how to inhabit the spaces we live in -- from the abandoned lot and the swimming pool to the page of the book. What a pleasure to have the full HOMERICA series in Brian Sneeden's lyrical translation.\" --KAREN VAN DYCK  \\\\  \"Sneeden is a meticulous translator and a poet in his own right. He brings Phoebe Giannisi's work to life with immediacy and conviction.\" --EDMUND KEELEY  \\\\  \"unusually excellent new poetry [¿] from Greece, in [an] unusually excellent translation.\" --ANNE CARSON, THE PARIS REVIEW  \\\\  \"Giannisi's work glitters with such fragments: minimal, direct, and dense with loss.\" --MAX SYDNEY SMITH, REVIEW 31 \\\\  \"A nuanced, clear set of poems that seamlessly articulate homeward journeys.\" --KIRKUS REVIEWS  \\\\  \"Giannisi intertwines the past with the present in order to experience the world around her anew.\" --JESSICA GIGOT, NEW YORK TIMES  \\\\  Modern Greek Poetry. Gender Studies. Women Authors. 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