About the author

Wang Jiaxin's publicly available biographical information is limited, but the nine works held in the collection show that he is mainly active in poetry writing, translation, and poetic scholarship. As a translator, he has rendered into Chinese poems by Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, Federico García Lorca, and W. H. Auden, and his translated collections often show a careful grasp of the background and craft of the originals. As an author, he has written works such as Encounters Between Man and the World and The Four of Us, and in In Search of a Perch for the Phoenix: Essays on Modern Poetry he gathers his reflections on modern poetry. His writing combines a poet's sensibility with a researcher's caution, often exploring poetic language, fate, and spirituality through close reading and translation practice. His works fall under literature, foreign literature, literary appreciation, and modern poetry.

Written (9)

The Radiance of Ashes: Selected Poems of Paul Celan cover
Rating 4.6
The Radiance of Ashes: Selected Poems of Paul Celan 保罗·策兰 / 王家新 · 2026 Gleaming Ashes: Selected Poems of Paul Celan, meticulously edited and translated by the renowned poet and translator Professor Wang Jiaxin, gathers so…
Finding a Perch for the Phoenix: Essays on Modern Poetry (Modern Poetry Research Series) cover
Rating 4.3
Finding a Perch for the Phoenix: Essays on Modern Poetry (Modern Poetry Research Series) 王家新 Peking University Press · 2025 This volume belongs to the Modern Poetry Research Series edited by Xie Mian, Sun Yushi, and Hong Zicheng of the Institute of Modern Chinese Poetry at …
Let My Words Endure: Mandelstam's Voronezh Poems cover
Rating 4.4
Let My Words Endure: Mandelstam's Voronezh Poems 奥西普·曼德尔施塔姆 / 王家新 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 This book is the complete translation of the three "Voronezh Notebooks" written during Mandelstam's exile in Voronezh (1935–1937), revealing the aston…
The Four of Us cover
Rating 4.3
The Four of Us 阿赫玛托娃 / 曼德尔施塔姆 / Boris Pasternak / 玛丽娜·茨维塔耶娃 / 茨维塔耶娃 / 王家新 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024 Four of Us brings together works by four poets—Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva—along with a translator's afterword by Wang Jiaxin. Thi…
The Encounter Between Man and the World cover
Rating 4.0
The Encounter Between Man and the World 王家新 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Featuring 34 essays and poetic reflections written between the 1980s and the early 21st century, Encounters Between People and the World includes such…
Sailing toward the Earth on the Mast of Song (Wang Jiaxin Works Series) cover
Rating 3.9
Sailing toward the Earth on the Mast of Song (Wang Jiaxin Works Series) 王家新 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Driving Toward the Earth on the Mast of Song brings together 30 essays of poetry criticism and commentary that Wang Jiaxin wrote between 2013 and 2021…
The Poet and His Era (Wang Jiaxin Works Series) cover
Rating 3.9
The Poet and His Era (Wang Jiaxin Works Series) 王家新 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Poets and Their Times collects 32 essays and critical writings on poetry that Wang Jiaxin wrote between 2003 and 2014, including "What Suffers in Us,"…
One Evening as I Went Out for a Walk (Selected Lyric Poems of Auden) cover
Rating 4.3
One Evening as I Went Out for a Walk (Selected Lyric Poems of Auden) W.H.奥登 / 马鸣谦 / 蔡海燕 / 王家新 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 For nearly half a century, Auden continually brought new vitality to English poetry. His work ranges from politics to religion, from the city to the c…
Death at Dawn: Selected Poems of Lorca cover
Rating 4.1
Death at Dawn: Selected Poems of Lorca 费德里科·加西亚·洛尔迦 / 王家新 East China Normal University Press · 2017 A major Spanish poet, Lorca fused the rhythms of Andalusian folk balladry, the craft of modern poetry, and surrealist imagination into a singular voic…

Publishers

Shanghai Translation Publishing HousePeking University PressBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.East China Normal University PressGuangxi Normal University Press