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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Phoebe Giannisi
DESCRIPTION:Heron Books is delighted to support this event organised by the Institute of Greece\, Rome and the Classical Tradition \nA Performance with Phoebe Giannisi and Poet-Translator Brian Sneeden \nA leading contemporary Greek poet\, Phoebe Giannisi brings together poetry\, performance\, ecology\, and antiquity in explorations of language\, place\, and the living world. Copies of her book\, Goatsong\, will be for sale on the night. \nTickets available here. \nAbout Goatsong:\nThe ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat (τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi’s Goatsong\, the seam that connects human and animal\, myths and history\, is the body.\nIn Giannisi’s language\, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth\, reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus\, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing\, and didn’t stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son\, Achilles\, into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips\, we’re told ‘the place of the mother’s grip / is the mark of death.’ Adjacent to the mythical setting is the material\, where the rumination of goats\, their digestive cycle – chewing\, swallowing\, then recalling food back into the mouth to be reconsidered – begins after weaning\, and is lain alongside how we think: ‘from the moment of separation / from the mother / they ruminate.’ In these lyric enactments\, all is transformative and transformed; territories of land\, the body and history are blurred\, and nothing is still.\nFrom Homer to Donna Haraway\, Derrida to state archives\, klephtic ballads and rebetiko\, to Parmenides and Giannisi’s dog\, Ivan\, the many human and animal voices of Goatsong form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature. \nPhoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University\, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly\, and co-editor of the literary journal frmk. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler\, Gregor Laschen\, Jesper Svenbro and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos\, Greece. \nBrian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon\, 2018). His poetry and translations have received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry\, an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship\, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry\, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize\, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and other recognitions. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
URL:https://www.heronbooks.mom/event/the-poetry-of-phoebe-giannisi/
LOCATION:Wills Memorial Building\, Queens Road\, Bristol\, BS8 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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