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In these poems, day-to-day activities such as shearing and shepherding mix with snippets of conversations, oral tradition, and song—locating a larger story in this ancient marriage between humans and animals. Through her poetry and fieldwork, this mytho-historical connection between metamorphosis and utterance takes form in what the Greek newspaper Kathimerini calls “a bold achievement….a studio wherein poems and other texts, other voices, become exhibited.”","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780811237826","publication_date":"20240709","publisher":"New Directions Publishing","slug":"chimera","subtitle":"","title":"Chimera"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE023060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.6974,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"European Poetry","score":0.6967,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"low","label":"Family Poems","score":0.6953,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE023060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.6974,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE005030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"European Poetry","score":0.6967,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"low","label":"Family Poems","score":0.6953,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"POE005030","confidence_band":"high","label":"European Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Nature Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Place Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Political & Protest Poetry","score":0.6974,"slug":"political-protest-poetry"},{"label":"European Poetry","score":0.6967,"slug":"european-poetry"},{"label":"Family Poems","score":0.6953,"slug":"family-poems"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in poetry blending field research, archives, and ancient texts","Readers drawn to Vlach goat-herding practices, oral tradition, and song"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Soula Emmanuel"],"book_id":"9781558610132","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781558610132.jpg?v=2564454615028861","score":0.6349,"title":"Wild Geese","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781558610132"},{"authors":["Alex Christofi"],"book_id":"9781399401883","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781399401883.jpg?v=bdf9a7c98ba0ad4b","score":0.6232,"title":"Cypria","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781399401883"},{"authors":["Christa Wolf"],"book_id":"9780374519049","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780374519049.jpg?v=6186010f26a89835","score":0.6124,"title":"Cassandra","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780374519049"},{"authors":["Honor Cargill-Martin"],"book_id":"9781915569905","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781915569905.jpg?v=cf0da50fbab15513","score":0.611,"title":"She Speaks","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781915569905"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:greek poetry"],"label":"Poetry","score":0.1898,"slug":"poetry"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:mytho-historical"],"label":"Historical","score":0.1137,"slug":"historical"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:animal husbandry"],"label":"Animal","score":0.0953,"slug":"animal"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:contemporary poetry"],"label":"Contemporary","score":0.0335,"slug":"contemporary"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:ancient greek"],"label":"Ancient","score":0.0259,"slug":"ancient"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Human-animal relationships, Metamorphosis and utterance, Oral tradition and song.","Themes: Poetry, Historical, Animal.","Reading lane: Political & Protest Poetry and European Poetry."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.92,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in poetry blending field research, archives, and ancient texts","Readers drawn to Vlach goat-herding practices, oral tradition, and song"],"themes":["Human-animal relationships","Metamorphosis and utterance","Oral tradition and song"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":3,"goodreads_ratings_count":46,"goodreads_reviews_count":3,"quality_score":0.848}}