Take my word for it

Nina Cassian

first published 1998 W.W. Norton, 1998 95 pages

Along awaited collection - her first written in English - by one of Romania's leading literary figures for over fifty years, Nina Cassian's poems pinpoint the contradictions, absurdities, and pathos of the modern world with courage and wisdom. Like Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, Cassian has had to reinvent herself in a new country and in a new language. Take My Word for It stands as a confession, a credo, a proc...

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Take my word for it edition · 1998 · W.W. Norton · 95 pages
Take my word for it edition · 1998 · Anvil Press Poetry · 91 pages

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