“Vena Yin Sheng’s poetry evokes the spirit of beautiful music. Its unusual sensitivity and humanity focus on the universality of soul...”

Francis Baxter,
Conductor, Composer

“A beautiful book ... a Treasure...
Almost Emily Dickinson.”

C. Edwin Harwood,
Professor Emeritus of English

“Truly sensitive, remarkably perceptive, Song of Roses loses nothing in any translation.”

Ed Pierce,
Bilingual Poetry Critic

“Vena Yin Sheng has that wondrous talent of reflecting life through her words...”

Hugh O. La Bounty,
University President Emeritus

“Poems are colorful, beautiful, moving, personal...”

Gordon Lew,
Professor of Asian Studies

“A far-off music comes closer,
Tall trees, distant seas, undying sounds,
The song of your roses.”

Virginia Hamilton Adair,
Renowned Poet

Sixty-four (64) touching poems in both English and Chinese (in beautifully handwritten calligraphy), exquisitely bound in white hard cover with gold lettering, 178 pages, 70# textured paper including color photos, author’s biography, and a scholarly article “The Spirit of Chinese Culture.”