"Everyone is a poet. Writing poetry is about finding different words in the rings of life, corresponding to changing emotions and thoughts, and that's what everyone does, just in different ways. Waking up early to make a great breakfast and hugging my own kids is also a great poem. I think everyone can write their own poems in between, and each poem is very precious. Five years after the last collection of poems, "I Choose to Cry and Love You," critic Yang Qingxiang's latest collection of poems, World Equals Zero, was recently published by the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.
He made an analogy that every good poem is a particularly beautiful plant with real life power. "The difference between poetry and rigid language is that poetry has a flexible space, and we must be people with a real sense of life, and we must avoid false emptiness in poetry." Yang Qingxiang observed a phenomenon that in some poetry selections, although the language is very beautiful, some works lack a sense of life, and they are less emotional than "showmanship". "It's either beautiful language or good language, and sometimes language needs to be rough and needs to escape from norms. Whoever it is, write in a language that is relevant to life. ”
This "sense of life" is also integrated into Yang Qingxiang's daily writing. He confessed that his poetry and life are the same, "My existence, every day needs poetry, or every period of time, and does not pursue quantity, sometimes write fast, sometimes very slow, but it is closely related to my own life." Even on the plane, on the high-speed train, on the commuter subway, I would pull out my mobile phone and click on the memorandum and write a few words. He jokes that if I stop writing poetry by the age of 45, I might "find another form of interacting with my life, and I'll do that." ”
Not long ago, Yang Qingxiang and the poet Mu Ye, Professor Huang Ping of East China Normal University, and young critic Liu Xinyue talked about "why we need poetry today" at the Shanghai Top Reading Club of Duoyun Academy. Muye said that good poetry, good language, good expression, "employed by the great unknown, present the things that are broken but loved, and give shape to them." ”
Huang Ping, a critic and professor at East China Normal University, believes that the reason why poetry has "not become more marginal because of the advent of the Internet era" is that in his view, poetry still bears the "liberation" in the aesthetic sense to some extent, allowing people to wake up from reality and meet their real selves; the second is that "the advanced style and flexible carrier make poetry writing still promising." ”
From "Dunhuang Truncated Sentence", "Qingdao Truncated Sentence", "Gulangyu Truncated Sentence" to "Grand Canal Truncated Sentence" and "Handan Truncated Sentence" and other verses full of human and geographical significance, the relationship between poetry and the local target is more like the interaction between life and this land. "One of my idols is Che Guevara, a true writer who loves his life and should have a Che Guevara-esque guerrilla spirit. Whether roaming or exploring, behind it is the trajectory of modern people's sense of belonging. Yang Qingxiang prefers the word "illusion" to "image" - behind his requirements for himself, which is changeable. "If one day I don't change, it means that life has stopped renewing."
"A poet once said that in a snowy field, if you see a deer and the deer looks beautiful, it is not poetry. When you see the hoof print of the deer, it is very distinctive, it is still not poetry, just words and words. Poetry is the interior of the deer, the loneliness, the silence and the desolation of the snow itself that you cannot see, and this is the language of poetry. Muye also saw such a colorful and jumping imagination in "World Equals Zero".
In Huang Ping's view, in addition to the literary aesthetic meaning, "World Equals Zero" also has a sense of history and lyricism. "That kind of instantaneous and fragmented expression is in line with the emotional structure of contemporary people; the rich lyricism effectively presents the richness of human nature."
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