A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts

<b>A new bilingual collection of poetry by a pioneering multi-talented Chinese writer and photographer in a landmark English translation.</b><br><br>&#147;My poems are flecks of salt clinging ambivalently to a horse&#146;s back&#148; Wang Yin writes. This is the first comprehensive collection of this important Chinese poet&#146;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&#150;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&#146;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 &#147;empty lane lit up by moonlight&#148;&#151;the poems of this extraordinary volume illuminate the inner life as a singular encounter between physical and spiritual realms.