ARGONAUT BOOKS

Spanning fifteen years of composition, Goatsong is the culmination of Giannisi's vision of chimeric poetics: an evocative and ambitious polyphonic exploration of desire, ecology, myth and motherhood. Reviews 'Goatsong intoxicates with its animality of language, gorgeous lyric and off-kilter metamorphoses, by turns wry, ecstatic and strange. Reading Phoebe Giannisi is like reading pre-Socratic philosophy on all fours, where flies buzz on and off the page and the polyphony of species and elements is both dazzling subject and all-encompassing medium.' - Daisy Lafarge, autho...Read More