{"product_id":"giannisi-phoebe-goatsong","title":"Giannisi, Phoebe - Goatsong","description":"Spanning fifteen years of composition,Goatsongis the\nculmination of Giannisi's vision of chimeric poetics: an\nevocative and ambitious polyphonic exploration of desire,\necology, myth and motherhood.\nThe ancient Greek word for tragedy (τραγωδία) is a compound of goat\n(τράγος) and song (ᾠδή). In Phoebe Giannisi's Goatsong, the seam that connects\nhuman and animal, myths and history, is the body.\nIn Giannisi’s language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in\nhis mouth, reminding us of a scene from Plato’s Phaedrus, where Socrates\nclaims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention\nof singing, and didn’t stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her\nnewborn son, Achilles, into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel\nwhere her hand grips, we’re told ‘the place of the mother’s grip \/ is the mark of\ndeath.’ Adjacent to the mythical setting is the material, where the rumination\nof goats, their digestive cycle – chewing, swallowing, then recalling food back\ninto the mouth to be reconsidered – begins after weaning, and is lain alongside\nhow we think: ‘from the moment of separation \/ from the mother \/ they\nruminate.’ In these lyric enactments, all is transformative and transformed;\nterritories of land, the body and history are blurred, and nothing is still.\nFrom Homer to Donna Haraway, Derrida to state archives, klephtic ballads\nand rebetiko, to Parmenides and Giannisi’s dog, Ivan, the many human and\nanimal voices of Goatsong form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement\nunique in literature.","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50585968509206,"sku":"RMX-56957","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/cae557ced231191356cba2291d4b0829.jpg?v=1759933456","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/giannisi-phoebe-goatsong","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}