Renaissance Passing Grass Parnassus Just Us is an invitation

Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together

to prose pieces on neglected African-American women writers

with translations by Noel Black)

“The case of Peter Manson provides another handy example of canonical speciousness

this bilingual edition—featuring a new introduction by Valzhyna Mort and Greg Nissan’s superbly-tuned translation—invites English-language readers into the “guest room” of poetry

Renaissance Passing Grass Parnassus Just Us is an invitationHaris Vlavianos Known for his spare, precise, and emotionally charged poetry, acclaimed Greek poet Haris Vlavianos paints 36 quixotic poem portraits of Renaissance figures to remind us that the past is always present. Vlavianos focusses on a central period of turbulence and renewal in European history through the ventriloquized voices of both well known and marginal characters of the time. Renaissance traces their hopes, dreams, and disappointments,