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Between the sun and me there is a veil of quietude which protects my eyes from the scratch of light which spares my being from the blister of knowledge which allows my self to breathe undisturbed. So now the war is over and now the love is over: How beautiful the death well prepared in advance.
ContinuumContinuum is a sweeping collection from a “miraculous” (Dana Gioia) poet. Spanning nearly sixty years, these poems blend her gallows humor and an engagement with the human experience, from memories of a childhood at play to the contemplation of a gradual mortality. more »
Nina Cassian was born in 1924 in Galati, Romania, and has published more than fifty books. She is a poet, composer, journalist, film critic, and translator of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Iannis Ritsos, Paul Celan, and others. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New England Review, and American Poetry Review. Exiled from Romania in 1985, she lives in New York City.
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