Published by Black Moss Press in June, 2015.
- Book Review by Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke (CLARKE: Chinese-Canadian poets offer work that’s visionary, fierce)
- Book Review by Ron Dart
- Book Review by Debbie Okun Hill
- book review on Puritan Magazine
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- Book review by Nadia Siu Van for Room Magazine (April, 2016)
- Book Review by Lynn Tait for Eastlit (April, 2016)
Book Review:
- George Elliot Clarke’s review of “Inhaling the Silence” for ARC Poetry #73
- Ron Dart’s review on Inhaling the Silence(Mosaic Press 2013)
- Inhaling the Silence (an interview from TTQ)
- Inhaling the Silence/NEWZ4U.NET
- Book review by Luiza Sadowski (MAC)
- Book review by Fran Figge (Ontario Poetry Society)
- Naming a Fish by Reid Mitchell (Review of “Wings Toward Sunlight”)
- 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)
Yet, Yin herself inks poems in homage to Canuck bards Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page, and she quotes Anna Akhmatova and Federico Garcia Lorca. Her purported Imagism is, then, mixed up with the extended lyricism of Layton and Page,while also accepting the cryptic politics of Akhmatova and the populist balladry of Cohen and Garcia Lorca. In other words, Yin may refer to several millennia of Chinese poetic techniques as opposed to the Euro-American Modernist fancy for Imagism, especially that which eschews politics so as to be (more) “beautiful.” “– from Arc Poetry #73 / George Elliott Clarke ( English professor of Harvard University)
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
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