
Life Sentence
Selected Poems
Nina Cassian(Author)
William Jay Smith(Editor)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 29. May 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-0-393-30721-4 (ISBN)
Description
Poems deal with childhood, color, censorship, freedom, greed, loneliness, love, pain, and mortality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-30721-4 (9780393307214)
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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. William Jay Smith, American poet and two-time finalist for the National Book Award, was the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. William Jay Smith, American poet and two-time finalist for the National Book Award, was the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.