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Life sentence : selected poems / Nina Cassian ; edited, and with an introduction, by William Jay Smith.
- 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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Text | Request in advance | PC840.13.A9 L5 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Smith, William Jay, 1918-
- Description
- xxiv, 129 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- 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