Nina Cassian

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.

Nina Cassian

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.

Books by Nina Cassian

  • Life Sentence: Selected Poems

    Nina Cassian, William Jay Smith, William Jay Smith

    Paperback, 1991

    “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...
  • Continuum: Poems

    Nina Cassian

    Hardback, 2009

    A new collection of work from "a world-class, high-spirited, fierce, intelligent, uncompromising, and wonderfully nervy poet" (Stanley Kunitz).
  • Continuum: Poems

    Nina Cassian

    Paperback, 2011

    "The poems in this work show Cassian to be . . . a poet who can work miracles with language."—Library Journal
  • Continuum: Poems

    Nina Cassian

    E Book, 2015

    "The poems in this work show Cassian to be . . . a poet who can work miracles with language."—Library Journal
  • Take My Word For It: Poems

    Nina Cassian

    Paperback, 1998

    A long-awaited collection—her first written in English—by Romania's leading literary figure for over fifty years, and one of the world's most important voices.