Take my word for it
Subtitle: poems
By: Nina Cassian.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; rum
Number of pages: 95
Description: Along awaited collection - her first written in English - by one of Romania's leading literary figures for over fifty years, Nina Cassian's poems pinpoint the contradictions, absurdities, and pathos of the modern world with courage and wisdom.

Like Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, Cassian has had to reinvent herself in a new country and in a new language. Take My Word for It stands as a confession, a credo, a proclamation of independence from one's native language, and a bill of rights - among them, the right to gain access to a new territory and a new culture.
Notes: English and Romanian.
"With few exceptions, the poems in this book were written between 1993 and 1996.  The majority were conceived in English; the others were translated from the Romanian by the author."--P. 10.
Errata slip inserted.