Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi #literature and the world she knew

and the world she knew destroyed

For a fledgling artist to attach herself to an established one

It sees how

Every day there are new things to explore

savage and bewitching

Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi #literature and the world she knewThe ancient Greek word for tragedy (t? a?? d? a) is a compound of goat (t?????) and song (? d?). 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 stop to eat