Book record
Chimera
Phoebe Gianissi
Translated from Greek by Brian Sneeden
Chimera, by Phoebe Gianissi and translated by Brian Sneeden from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Phoebe Gianissi's chimera, hybrid body, and the return of myth as something living rather than decorative. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for chimera, animal, myth, and the strange body a poem becomes when categories fail, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Chimera belongs in the translated poetry library because it shows contemporary Greek poetry using antiquity as active metamorphosis.
- Published
- 2024
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9780811237826