Words for “Wings Toward Sunlight”

  • Book Review:

Naming a Fish by Reid Mitchell (Review of “Wings Toward Sunlight”) 2012

Ron Dart’s Review on “Wings Toward Sunlight”  Clarion Journal (05/2012)

Carried on Wings: Anna Yin’s Wings Toward Sunlight ( Cha Magazine  2012)

Lois P. Jones reviewing Anna Yin’s “Wings Toward Sunlight” (Loch Raven Review, 2011)

You have an affinity with the Imagists, a group of poets I think fascinating. The poems are certainly heartfelt and mysterious (in a good way!). You have a knack for saying things simply and evocatively. You should defend this gift!  You have mapped out a technique for yourself and you should continue to explore its possibilities. It will be a long time before you have exhausted the style you have developed.  — Richard Greene (English professor of U of T)

It is a beautiful book, crafted by a beautiful poet.  You have a great tell-tale line.  It is “You outlive.”  Beautiful, beautiful.    –John Robert Colombo

“Anna Yin’s delicate, sensitive and haunting poetry will sweep you off your feet, carry you to exciting, exotic places and land you right in your own backyard. From her carefully crafted Haiku, to her sorrowful, melodic, sweet verses, you will not be able to put her work down, nor will you be able to read those beautiful poems only once. You will want to read them over and over again.”

– I.B. Iskov, editor and founder of the Ontario Poetry Society

  • Anna Yin’s poetry provides a gracious blend of elements from both Asian and Western poetic traditions. She says in one poem, “I wake to listen.” Indeed, she does listen: she listens especially to the natural environment, dreams and the longings of the heart. There is a mysterious quality about some of her poems which pulls at the reader’s feelings. Images (such as “a river / where a black rose floated,” and metaphors (such as tea grown cold, bread in a toaster and “a hooked fish”) will not readily be forgotten. You will want to put this book on the nightstand or coffee table where you can pick them up and read them again.

                                        Wilda Morris / President of Poets and Patrons of Chicago

  • An authentic, direct tone brings the author’s native Chinese voice to these poems, which are charming and fresh at their best. There is a Mary Oliver-like feel of ‘merging with nature’ captured in simple diction and similes, and unusual images.

                                           –Elana Wolff/ Poet and Editor from Toronto

  •  It is a rare thing to come across a first collection of poems that leaves the reader feeling completely captivated and awed. Writing mainly in short narrative lyrics, Yin’s highly imagistic style brims with freshly-conceived similes and metaphors and an economy of language that belies the powerful messages of loss and love. These are poems that remain with you long after you have finished reading them; a collection that constantly surprises and delights with its beautifully-rendered images, unexpected turns of phrases, and its equally powerful quiet moments of longing and regret. Simply dazzling!

-Laura Lush / Poet and Instructor from University of Toronto

  • “There is not a wasted word in Yin’s poem “Raspberries”. The poem is a concise exploration of a moment; a modern interpretation of the kind of classical Chinese poems in which a specific scene, thought or feeling is condensed and captured in the most economic way. Yet despite its focus on a particular instant, Yin’s poem still allows for a number of interpretations.”

– Tammy Ho, Cha Magazine

  • “Beautiful verses and powerful images touched many readers.”

– Alan Neal, host, CBC Radio

  • “Anna Yin is one the bravest poets I have read…she dares to straddle the line between two languages, two very different cultures and strives to find an acceptable service to both….I often find bits of poetry in her writing that are like small Chinese miniatures, bits of meditation where the mind makes lovely images of the commonplace.”

– Don Schaeffer

  • “Not all poets have the talent for honing in on just the right word, but Yin possesses that rare gift.”

– Sandy Millar, Mississauga News

  • “The blending of East and West adds a fascinating dimension to her oeuvre. Her unique voice represents a new direction in contemporary Canadian literature.”

– Paul Hartal

Tammy Ho’s review for Raspberries

A cup of fine tea: Anna Yin’s “Raspberries”

There is not a wasted word in Yin’s “Raspberries”. The poem is a concise exploration of a moment; a modern interpretation of the kind of classical Chinese poems in which a specific scene, thought or feeling is condensed and captured in the most economic way. Yet, despite its focus on a particular instant, Yin’s poem still allows for any number of interpretations.

The poet’s inspiration is clearly nature in this work, and throughout the poem, she uses different natural elements in simple yet powerful images. Read more

星子(Anna Yin)作品目录以及评论集

 (摘自酷我-北美枫/COVIEW.COM诗人作品研讨会)
1。开幕词: 山城子
2。星子诗选
早期作品          双语作品其他作品部分已评作品选

 3。 诗歌配画
A / 流星 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=3565
B / 我只是一朵蒲公英 http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=29053
C / 蓝调 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=2008
D / 秋之颂 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=2023
http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=2183
E / 午后的风 (看非马老师的画有感) http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=2214
F/ 向晚 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=2182

4、多媒体作品选
A / 西席多媒体 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=4818
B / 叶雨多媒体 https://www.annapoetry.com/?p=434

C / 自制电子杂志 http://anna.88just.com/annaEzine.exe
B / 星星物语 http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=3719

5、采访
A / 2006加拿大中文电视台安妮专访
http://ccetv.ca/ccetvlist.php?chan=1&col=1&s=110003
B /2005新时代电视采访
http://www.coviews.com/weblog_entry.php?e=4819
C / 2005 加拿大国家电台采访: https://www.annapoetry.com/?p=181
D) 研讨会:星子—— 山城子 对话
http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32952

6 (照片) http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33127

7、诗歌朗诵(安妮朗诵)
A / 离回去的日子近了 http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?p=174499
B / 多伦多 , 不再哭泣 (安妮朗诵)
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=21438
C / 笨妹朗诵 告别交响曲 http://www.coviews.com/posting.php?mode=editpost&p=157301

8、诗歌之路自叙(有梦就要去追求)
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=15840
英文版: http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32898

9、专题采访 (特约记者:Eric Liu)
原文 http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32937
翻译 http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32932

10. 西方诗人和读者评星子
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33013
Regaining Memory: (by Terry Barker)
http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33281

11。论文集:(以发表时间为序)

山城子: 童年有诗意,欲辨非忘然——共鸣于星子早期作品《往事》
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32913

山城子: 乡情、爱情、诗情,情情执著-学习星子的诗歌
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=26961

山城子:爱,掩映在夜晚——赏读星子的《无题》
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=18300

山城子: 血浓于水的游子情——读星子回国探访的两首小诗
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32176

迪拜: “百合花, 在苍茫的河床骄傲地开放”—-品星子的人和诗
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32892

荧石: 星子诗歌浅读
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32945

肖今: 星光下的精神家园——星子印象记
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32962

觅雪嫦晴: 星子的天空:追求爱和自由的诗性天空
http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=32996

黄崇超: 星子,在海洋的那边(也说星子诗)
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33069

何均: 星子的诗:偶然的火花,必然的星辰
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33111

温东华: 自然,妙趣;朴素 ——说星子女士的诗
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33151

叶雨: 说说我眼中星子的诗
http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?p=176361

长篙 : 也谈星子的灵性
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33164

黑色闪电:山中岁月,异域心情——读星子诗歌《峦山之行》
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33309

高岸: 读星子的诗歌<多伦多,不再哭泣>
http://www.coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=33401

2007 Update (Copy right by Anna Yin)