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Wang Yin
🇨🇳China
Wang Yin (王寅) is one of China's finest living poets, and A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems brings his work to English readers for the first time in a substantial collection. His poetry is spare, luminous, and haunted — drawing on the landscapes of the Yangtze Delta, the ghosts of Chinese literary tradition, and the texture of daily life in a changing country.
Wang Yin's lines have the clarity of ink on rice paper — each image precisely placed, each silence meaningful. He writes about memory, place, and the presence of the past with a quietness that belies the poems' emotional power. For readers exploring Chinese poetry beyond the classical canon, Wang Yin is an essential contemporary voice.