Listen to: Anna Yin’s poem: Life Jars on CBC Radio (Metro Morning)
A few days ago when I was still in Las Vegas for vacation, I got an email from CBC Radio to ask me to write a poem about silence. Here it is: Life Jars on air! July 15, 2013
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experiences. –Emily Dickinson
Anna Yin’s Poems written in Chinese or Anna Yin’s translation works from Chinese into English
Listen to: Anna Yin’s poem: Life Jars on CBC Radio (Metro Morning)
A few days ago when I was still in Las Vegas for vacation, I got an email from CBC Radio to ask me to write a poem about silence. Here it is: Life Jars on air! July 15, 2013
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Much is heard and spoken in Inhaling the Silence that is worthy of plenty of rereads. Anna has a receptive and meditative soul and what she has inhaled in the silence, she generously breaths back in life giving speech—this poetic missive is oxygen for the soul in an age when the contemplative approach to life is desperately needed as a corrective the addictive hyper-activism of many in the west in which many see but see little.
Read it fully here or check it on Clarion Journal
Photos by Ellen Dou / Music by Mark Harry Produced by Anna’s Poetry Alive (2013)
Inhaling the Silence was just released, with introduction by Richard Greene, Foreword by Terry Barker. Publishers: Mosaic Press (2013)