Life Sentence: Selected Poems - Softcover

Cassian, Nina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393307212 ISBN 13: 9780393307214

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

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

Poems deal with childhood, color, censorship, freedom, greed, loneliness, love, pain, and mortality.

About this title

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.

William Jay Smith, American poet and two-time finalist for the National Book Award, was the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

William Jay Smith, American poet and two-time finalist for the National Book Award, was the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.

Review:

'Cassian's appetite for life is gargantuan... and in these award-winning translations... it is the grand lyric sweep of her poems on love and memory which gives the reader the sensation of being in the company of a one-woman orchestra' --Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian

'Epic, intense, scorching poems of loss and love' --Adam Thorpe, Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393307212
• ISBN 13: 9780393307214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Smith William Jay