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The ancient Greek word for tragedy is a compound of 'goat' and 'song'. In Phoebe Giannisi's Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body.

In Giannisi's language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Plato's Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and didn't stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son, Achilles, into the R

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The ancient Greek word for tragedy is a compound of 'goat' and 'song'. In Phoebe Giannisi's Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body.

In Giannisi's language, life obeys myth. A man places a screaming cicada in his mouth, reminding us of a scene from Plato's Phaedrus, where Socrates claims cicadas to have been humans who became entranced by the invention of singing, and didn't stop to eat or drink. When the goddess Thetis dips her newborn son, Achilles, into the R

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