In the current poetry world, there are indeed few works that can be handed, but strangely, various versions of poetry are endless. Many "famous poets" are editing various poetry anthologies, which is really puzzling. Now the poems have become like that, and they have already given enough face when they are published, so why do you have to dry them again and enter the poetry selection?
For example, Li Shaojun, the editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal, presides over the "only central-level poetry journal", which should be busy enough and the burden on his shoulders is heavy enough, right? However, he still had to squeeze out time in his busy schedule and compile the "Poetry Harvest" with Lei Pingyang. This is a quarterly poetry anthology, there are four seasons in a year, and "Poetry Harvest" has four copies of spring, summer, autumn and winter every year.
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The poetry and critical essays selected by The Harvest of Poetry are from officially published literary journals and poetry collections. "You see, isn't this like fried leftovers?" Someone else has officially published it, and you make it up again, what's the point? However, Li Shaojun and Lei Pingyang persevered, and every year they produced four copies of "Poetry Harvest".
Moreover, based on the Poetry Journal, Li Shaojun is also compiling the "Selected Readings of the New Year of Chinese Poetry" every year. Huo Junming, deputy editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal, is not idle, and every year he has to compile the annual "Selected Chinese Poetry". "Famous poet" Yang Ke writes the "Yearbook of New Chinese Poetry" every year. I don't know what is the difference between Li Shaojun's "reading book", Huo Junming's "selection", and Yang Ke's "yearbook"? How many poems are made up every year and repeatedly tossed?
For example, one of the founders of "colloquial poetry", "famous poet" Isha, especially likes to compile poetry selections. What "Century Poetry Classic", "Modern Poetry Classic", "Forgotten Classic Poetry", "New Century Poetry Dictionary", etc., the name is particularly loud, "Century" Yo, "Poetry Classic" Yo, "Poetry Classic" Yo, it seems to be very powerful, in fact, is not to print other people's works again?
For another example, the "famous poet" Shi Shiran, who won the "Sixth China Long Poetry Award New Talent Award", has to compile a "Selected Poems of Chinese Women Poets" every year. Among the works of female poets of the year, select some of them and print them again. Honestly, isn't that a waste of paper?
But the "famous poets" don't think so, they think it's a "very meaningful" thing, otherwise they wouldn't have been so persistent. Where does it really mean? If you think about it, as a poet, who doesn't want to be "famous"? So how can it be "famous"? Being selected for various poetry anthologies is one way to do that. You see, my poems have become the classics of the century, are they not famous?
Therefore, poets are happy to have their poems selected in various poetry selections. In this way, the compilation of poems has become a "beautiful situation" in which you love me, two feelings are happy, hello, I am good, everyone is good. And the person who edits the selected poems has the right to decide whose poems can be selected, then it is not more "famous"? You help me carry the palanquin, I help you blow the horn, everyone is lively, they are all "famous".
From this point of view, compiling a selection of poems is a beautiful thing that is profitable! You don't have to write a word yourself, just take someone else's work. The point is that when you take someone else's work, people not only don't object, but they are very happy. There is such a good thing in the world! Why not?
If this is the case, can each of us compile a selection of poems? For example, I wrote essays for three people, I went to compile a "Century Classic Three-Person Poetry Selection", only pick three people, that is really one of the thousands, poets will not squeeze their heads? However, there is a question, can this compilation of poems be officially published? If it can't be officially published, who is rarely selected for your poetry anthology?
So the question is, who can officially publish the selected poems? Everyone should have heard that officially publishing a book is not so easy. So how can they officially publish a selected poem? Haha, this is the key to the problem, it is not easy to say, can not say, inconvenient to say.
In any case, the result is that some "famous poets" can officially publish selected poems. Therefore, they have become the "heroes" in the minds of many poets. As a result, they became more and more famous and became leading figures in the poetry world. Now the simplest way to judge how famous a poet is is to see if he can publish a selected poem. If he can, then he is a poet cattle man, and he can't accept it.