Synopses & Reviews
Poems deal with childhood, color, censorship, freedom, greed, loneliness, love, pain, and mortality.
Synopsis
"The selected poems of Nina Cassian represent an exciting collaboration of poet-translators and the poet herself. Comedy and despair come together in this lyrical text; the whole is enhanced by William Jay Smith's useful and insightful introduction." --Maxine Kumin
About the Author
Nina Cassian (1924--2014) was born in Galati, Romania. A composer, journalist, film critic, and translator of Shakespeare and Brecht, Cassian was exiled from Romania in 1985.