Nina Cassian obituary | Poetry
PoetryObituaryNina Cassian obituaryRomanian poet exiled to New York who wrote about childhood, ageing, freedom and, above all, loveThe poet Nina Cassian, who has died aged 89 in New York, her home since she gave up Romania for her safety's sake in the mid-1980s, produced more than 30 volumes of witty, vigorous verse, first in Romanian and, in her later years, in English. She was an entertaining reader of her own work, delighting audiences with her humour and vitality.
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