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Poetry of the Quotidian Wordsmith
In Take My Word For It Nina Cassian explores the intersection between the interior surfaces of words and the inner surfaces of human experience. That could read like a gussied up banality; it's actually my best shot at trying to tell you about these poems, which I like enormously and re-read often. If words themselves, individually as well as ganged up together on a...
Published on October 26, 2008 by Amanda Burton
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a disappointment
I recently discovered Nina Cassian, and I love her work. I've found her to be a wonderful poet. In her own language. Rather, translated from Romanian. I very happily sat down with this collection, ready to dive into poems that are beautiful, musical, and important pieces. What I found were trivial poems that tried to be playful and musical, but came across flat. They...
Published on June 30, 2002 by adead_poet@hotmail.com
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Poetry of the Quotidian Wordsmith,
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This review is from: Take My Word For It: Poems (Hardcover)
In Take My Word For It Nina Cassian explores the intersection between the interior surfaces of words and the inner surfaces of human experience. That could read like a gussied up banality; it's actually my best shot at trying to tell you about these poems, which I like enormously and re-read often. If words themselves, individually as well as ganged up together on a page, are a source of thought and examination and rumination to you then this book is for you. There's wetness and messiness here, left lying about casually next to the toaster, fractions of passion butted up next to the quotidian in a breath-catching, economical offhandedness. The title tells the story, and she has a mastery that maybe only comes with the perspective of fluency in several languages. These poems are anything *but* trivial, and they get better and better with re-reading.
2.0 out of 5 stars
a disappointment,
By adead_poet@hotmail.com "adead_poet@hotmail.com" (Beaumont, tx USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Take My Word For It: Poems (Hardcover)
I recently discovered Nina Cassian, and I love her work. I've found her to be a wonderful poet. In her own language. Rather, translated from Romanian. I very happily sat down with this collection, ready to dive into poems that are beautiful, musical, and important pieces. What I found were trivial poems that tried to be playful and musical, but came across flat. They struck me as trite, and what is really sad is that I probably give the book more credit because of my respect for her and her earlier work. I say pick up _Life Sentence_ because that is the Nina Cassian we all know and love. (Oh, this collection does contain her translation of Jabberwocky into Romanian, but since I don't know how to pronounce the Romanian alphabet, it is just something to look at and not something you can really appreciate hearing. There is also her poem "Impreciation" in something called "English Spargan" which is her Jabberwockish made up language, and instead of being fresh and interesting, it seems rather embarassing. Maybe it comes across better in the origianl "Sparga Romana".)
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Take My Word For It: Poems by Nina Cassian (Hardcover - July 17, 1998)
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