{"id":6608,"date":"2015-09-14T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=6608"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:56:14","slug":"anna-yin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/anna-yin\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Yin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Anna Yin was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1999. She holds a B.S. from Nanjing University and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Toronto. Yin is a computer programmer and a poet. In 2015 she was named the inaugural poet laureate for Mississauga, Ontario for a two year term. In October 2021 Guernica Press will be publishing a collection of poetry that Anna Yin has translated: Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems With Translations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond My Knowing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mississauga, Ont.: Sureway International, 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Breaking Into Blossom: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary: Frontenac House, 2025.
Forthcoming May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with a short song, ending in awakening reality, Breaking into Blossom<\/em> unfolds a lyrical exploration of human experience, weaving personal struggles, societal issues, and the turbulence of history into a vast tapestry. Amidst various chaos, the collection seeks moments of serenity, harmony, romance and resilience. With an elegant balance of reflection and renewal, it captures the delicate interplay between hardship and hope, inviting readers to embrace truth through poetic inspiration and a deep wonder for the human spirit. Breaking into Blossom<\/em> is more than an artistic expression\u2014it is a meditation on transformation, revealing both reality and optimism even in life\u2019s most uncertain seasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Inhaling the Silence: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jasmine Star Light<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thornhill, Ont.: Ontario Poetry Society, 2005.
Stanza break chapbook series ; #7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nightlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Windsor, Ont.: Black Moss Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When Anna Yin was a child, she was intrigued by fireflies. Haiku are like these nightlights. In this troublesome world, they guide us on our journey unknown. Nightlights is a collection in six sections that illustrate the journey that is life. In the beginning one can find romance and mystery, then the haiku move to friends and family events, homesickness, daily meditation, and life\u2019s struggles. Next the journey shifts, speaking both of a season and a mood where one ponders natural disasters and human tragedies. Finally \u201cReflections\u201d bring back thoughts, doubts and awakenings along the journey and finish with a haiku:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

under dim stars
searching for
the road not taken<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each haiku brings to the reader a moment of wonder, beauty and magic. Every haiku will help you find a thread to the quietness of Nature and the depths of your own experience\u2026 Take your time, slow down, you will find nightlights glowing too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Windsor, Ont.: Black Moss Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac<\/em> was written in 2013 under the title \u201cThe Year of the Snake.\u201d It was a poem about one searching for meaning and faith during tragedies. Like the girl in Alice Munro\u2019s \u201cRunaway\u201d who eventually was trapped in a goat\u2019s skeleton, the poem didn\u2019t find its way out. When the Horse Year arrived, a horse poem came with the inspiration from Plato\u2019s Chariot Allegory and more animal poems gathered. She started to recognize that the zodiac in a human being\u2019s body and mind is shaped by space and time and transformed by history and reality. It called for a poetic form. Soon Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac<\/em> was born and unleashed its animated voice and symbolic meaning in its broader and bolder ways. This collection takes on its own pace and develops into four sections: \u201cNight Shades\u201d meditates on fate, tragedies and loss, \u201cDried Roses\u201d reflects love and longings, \u201cLife Jars\u201d collects incidents and stories from daily life and \u201cThe Self-Completing Tree\u201d reveals the journey of finding identity and searching for freedom and faith.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 2011.
PS8647 .I5 W56 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Now in its second printing, Wings Toward Sunlight<\/em> establishes Anna Yin\u2019s as one of the important new and original voices of Canadian poetry. Many of her poems have since been translated into Chinese and her work has received wide critical praise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Black Moss Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Mosaic Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Yin personal website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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