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.

"Continuum contains many poems in which the pleasure is that of speaking out with a surrealist flourish."

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.

"Continuum contains many poems in which the pleasure is that of speaking out with a surrealist flourish."