Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts by Wang Yin and translated by Andrea Lingenfelter

This is poetry from China.

Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts by Wang Yin translated by Andrea Lingenfelter is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681376486E12.

Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts, by Wang Yin, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter, published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The in 2022. It is a Chinese collection by Wang Yin, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, where ordinary time is crowded by the dead and remembered. The title has a wonderful calm to it, as though haunting were not interruption but companionship, weather, and daily atmosphere. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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