Feng Dong is associate professor of English at Qingdao University. At present, he is exploring poetry’s unique access to the essential strangeness of Being. He is the author of Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin’s Poetry (2021) and Mirror in the Deep Sea: Paul Celan’s Poetics of Strangeness (2021). He has also published a volume of poems Speculative Patient under the name Peter Feng.