GoatsongPhoebe Giannisi (trans. Brian Sneeden) The ancient Greek word for tragedy () is a compound of goat () and song (). In Phoebe Giannisis Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body. In Giannisis language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Platos Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and

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as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image

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“Each of the writers’ work in this book frustrates the limits of particular poetic concerns and together their voices comprise an archival octet that hums in ‘the breath’s hidden fissure

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with the only tools the poet can summon

which silences are too deep to be surfaced on the page

Whatever shards of hope we may pick out of the wreckage must be in the understanding that we are capable of doing more – as individuals and collectively – to write a different future for ourselves and those with whom we share