Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi, trans. Brian Sneeden
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Winter 2025 illness narrators confront their nostalgia and

narrators confront their nostalgia and self-imposed exile in a series of threshold moments foregrounding 'obsession'

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The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple

Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi, trans. Brian Sneeden<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Winter 2025</b> illness narrators confront their nostalgia andPublished 6th November 2025. The ancient Greek word for tragedy () is a compound of goat () and song ( ). In Phoebe Giannisi's 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 didnt