Goatsong All That Beauty War and love intertwine with

War and love intertwine with coffee and bombs

at first glance unrelated and even anarchic

with the only tools the poet can summon

By offering these intangible encounters

often collaboratively with Joseph Minden

Goatsong All That Beauty War and love intertwine withPhoebe 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