Goatsong All That Beauty often collaboratively with Joseph Minden

often collaboratively with Joseph Minden

on city sidewalks or in the country

"—John Ashbery

By offering these intangible encounters

Goatsong All That Beauty often collaboratively with Joseph MindenPhoebe 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