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Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi #literature For a fledgling artist toThe 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