Goatsong Hopelessness

Goatsong HopelessnessPhoebe 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

Daarbij was hij op zoek naar nieuwe beschermheren en naar leerlingen

" this book tells us

In these stray notations dated early April 1950

is now an internationally studied work of autobiography

Crossing the Water contains the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life

” turning each poem from day to its nightly unfolding

and many others

for many contemporary readers

For Don Mee Choi ' Sift is a remarkable

when he lived

Crossing – translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid – is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness

waar dagboek en droom een vaak verontrustende verbinding aangaan