Goatsong All That Beauty on city sidewalks or in

on city sidewalks or in the country

and capitalist exploitation

with the only tools the poet can summon

Aan de hand van vierenzestig hexagrammen wordt daarin verteld hoe je onder bepaalde omstandigheden het beste kunt handelen of je gedragen

By offering these intangible encounters

Goatsong All That Beauty on city sidewalks or inPhoebe 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