Research Catalog

Title

Life sentence : selected poems / Nina Cassian ; edited, and with an introduction, by William Jay Smith.

Author

Cassian, Nina

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, William Jay, 1918-

Description

xxiv, 129 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Romanian poetry > 20th century
• Translations
• Cassian, Nina > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Translated from Romanian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On an old theme -- The birds are white and triangular -- Ecstasy -- Memories -- Part of a bird -- The burning of the famous Castle Nevermore -- The couple -- Evolution -- The inclined plane -- Game mistress -- Ballad of the Jack of Diamonds -- Vacation -- Dialogue of the wind and the sea -- The master and Margarita -- Ceremony of zero weather -- The troubled bay -- Controversy -- Temptation -- Kisses -- Greed -- Longing -- Bread and wine -- They cut me in two -- Pain -- I wanted to stay in September -- It was a love -- Stained-glass window -- It is evening, my love -- Intimacy -- Ready for goodbye -- Dream girl -- Because you don't love me -- Gerundive -- burning -- The first and last night of love -- Face to face of no use -- Escape -- Cold -- A happening -- The young bat -- The blood -- She was beautiful and wicked -- Romance -- Like Gulliver -- Thanks -- The good old habits -- Orchestra -- Pride -- Project of wisdom -- Sand -- Morning exercises -- Lady of miracles -- With a thin pencil of platinum -- Ghost -- Mud -- The widow -- The cripples -- The green elephant -- Dead still -- The bear -- Agoraphobia -- A dream of drought -- The rabbit -- The doors -- Exorcism -- Sacrilege -- Fable -- Postmeridian -- Fairytale -- That animal -- The caterpillar -- Arguing with chaos -- The big-billed swan -- It frightens me -- The syllables of the lie -- And when summer comes to an end -- Human -- What I told the squirrel -- A famous woman -- Extraordinary performance -- Self-portrait -- Farce -- Softening, softening -- Joyful sacrifice -- To my critics -- Tirade for the next-to-last act -- The kiwi bird -- Night must fall -- Point of view -- Repetitio -- The afterlife -- Please give this seat to an elderly or disabled person -- Orbits -- Three priests -- Poetry -- My parents bent over a book -- Vowel -- Licentiousness -- Spell.

ISBN

• 0393027864
• 0856462276

LCCN

^^^89033245^//r91

OCLC

• 19722200
• SCSB-11008498

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library