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Renaissance
Haris Vlavianos
Translated from Greek by Patricia Felisa Barbeito
Renaissance, by Haris Vlavianos and translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through rebirth, cultural memory, and a Greek poet returning to the idea of renaissance without making it merely decorative. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for renewal, history, art, and the pressure of old forms waking in a contemporary voice, not as a fixed lesson about Greece. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Renaissance belongs in the translated poetry library because it shows Greek poetry thinking with Europe while still retaining its own weather.
- Published
- 2026
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781954218420