A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts - NYRB Poets

"My poems are flecks of salt clinging ambivalently to a horse's back," Wang Yin writes. This is the first comprehensive collection of this important Chinese poet's work to appear in English, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter. Readers can follow the full arc of his career, from the early, surrealist, and Deep Image-influenced work of the 1980s, when he made his debut as a post-Misty poet, through the turn toward the rawer, more immediate poetry of the nineties, and on to the existential and ineffable weavings of his more recent work. Wang's sensibility is both cosmopolitan and lyrical, and his poetry has a subtlety and beauty that contrasts with the often physically painful imagery with which he depicts psychological reality, a reality expressed as various states of mind struggling against the suppression of memory. Shanghai winters, a winter in Katowice, a summer day with ghosts, blue shadows, petals in the darkness, an "empty lane lit up by moonlight"-the poems of this extraordinary volume illuminate the inner life as a singular encounter between physical and spiritual realms.

ISBN:	9781681376486
Publisher:	New York Review Books
Imprint:	New York Review Books
Published date:	16 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	895.1152
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English,Chinese
Sales rank:	20551
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	170g
Height:	113mm
Width:	178mm
Spine width:	18mm

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