Peter Feng

Peter Feng is a poet, scholar, and translator. He is the author of Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry (LSU Press, 2021), Mirror in the Deep Sea: Paul Celan's Poetics of Strangeness (Nanjing UP, 2021) and a collection of critical essays The Eye of Muse (Showwe, 2021). He has also published two books of poems: Speculative Patient (2018) and Parallel Tongues (2015).

His Chinese translations include Thomas Wolfe, Sylvia Plath, Pierre Reverdy, and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. At present, he is exploring poetry's unique access to the essential strangeness of Being in a conversation with philosophy and psychoanalysis. He lives in Qingdao.