Nina Cassian – författare

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

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.

Ars Poetica: a PolemicI am I.I am personal.I am subjective, intimate, private,particular,confessional.All that happens,happens to me.The landscape I describeis myself. . . .If you're interestedin birds, trees, rivers,try reference books.Don't read my poems.I'm no indexed bird,tree or river,just a registered Self.