Spanning nearly sixty years, these poems--both new English compositions and Nina Cassian's translations of her work in Romanian--blend her gallows humor with an engagement with the human experience.
Spanning nearly sixty years, these poems--both new English compositions and Nina Cassian's translations of her work in Romanian--blend her gallows hum...
I am I I am personal I am subjective, intimate, private particular confessional All that happens happens to me The landscape I describ is myself. . . If you're intereste in birds, trees, rivers try reference books Don't read my poems I'm no indexed bird tree or river just a registered Self.
I am I I am personal I am subjective, intimate, private particular confessional All that happens happens to me The landscape I describ is myself. . . ...
There is also an anthology of the favorite poems of each poet, many not previously published, as well as other tragic and comic literary surprises in this nothing-like-it book.
There is also an anthology of the favorite poems of each poet, many not previously published, as well as other tragic and comic literary surprises in ...
The late poet, Nina Cassian, knew the avant-garde's joyful flights and chivalrous desperation. In this collection, she brings poetry to a higher level by inventing a new language that is funny and challenging, imaginative and unique in force and grace. Framed from within by Nina's delightfully witty drawings, this book collects her most famous avant-garde poems, written over six decades. Cassian's decades of song set bodies and hearts in the enchanted state that flourishes above and below the edicts of dullness and the precincts of censure. Her glossolalic ease and ecstatic insouciance are...
The late poet, Nina Cassian, knew the avant-garde's joyful flights and chivalrous desperation. In this collection, she brings poetry to a higher level...