"From the beginning of writing, I have traveled a lot, maybe there have been detours, but finally I came back to square one and became a child." Zhao Lihong said.
The newly published poetry collection "Metamorphosis" published by the People's Literature Publishing House includes 66 new works created by Zhao Lihong in the past two years. At the same time as the launch of the new book, at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, "Looking Back at Yourself, Gazing at the World - Exhibition of Zhao Lihong's Poems and Manuscripts" presented readers with 60 poet manuscripts and more than 20 poetry collections, including the manuscript of "Metamorphosis".
Among Shanghai writers, Zhao Lihong began to write on a computer earlier, but only to write poetry, he did not use the computer keyboard to type, but wrote sentence by sentence in the book, constantly writing, constantly revising. "Sometimes I write fluently, sometimes I write hard, I write while I change, and if I can't write it, I doodle next to it and draw the images that appear in my head."
The same is true of this "Metamorphosis", using fragmented time such as travel, waiting, and meeting intervals, Zhao Lihong writes her own thoughts and moments of insight. Especially during the epidemic, "I encountered a lot of confusion, many things became elusive, and I found that I didn't understand the world, I didn't understand my own life, and some poems were written in this situation." ”
"Writing poetry is a very personal matter, a secret of my life. Poetry is like my 'history of life', a person who writes quietly and slowly, presenting his secrets to the reader. "Zhao Lihong said that when he was young, he wrote poetry in pursuit of writing beautifully, beautifully and gorgeously, and strived to write clearly his thoughts about the world in each poem." Only later did I gradually realize that I did not have this ability. I feel some philosophies of life, the secrets of the world, but to express them clearly, perhaps even the greatest philosophers can not fully achieve. Each of us is in the process of constantly searching, thinking, and asking questions. ”
"Not a fictional story, it is the reality I have experienced firsthand, the 98-year-old mother, in the hidden corner of her bedside, set up a small bookshelf, made of a delicate picture book as a bracket, made of silk scarf as a curtain, on the shelves, layered on top of each other the books I gave her - she knows all the secrets in my heart from the lines, in her eyes, I am still the shy and taciturn boy, standing in the doorway of the dilemma... On her bookshelf, there are tired gui geese, and my mother flipping through my books is like soothing my wounded wings and sorting out those broken and broken feathers..." Recitation artist Liu Jiazhen recited "Mother's Bookshelf" in the poetry collection on the spot.
"Entering the poetry reading through handwritten rather than printed words, behind the traces of correction and the habit of writing, reading the process of the poet's hesitation, search, self-denial and re-affirmation, which is also the stage of 'deformation' in the true sense of poetry." The process of restoration, identification, and search also occurs when the mother reads the works of the poet's son. In the process of being read, the poet returns to his childhood, back to the memory of the individual, which is again a kind of 'deformation'. Poet Ouyang Jianghe said that over the years, Zhao Lihong has been writing non-stop, he is loyal to the plainness of the language, and his expression and his experience are matched. It is this loyalty that allows his writing to go long and far. "'Metamorphosis' brings surprises, revelations, touching and education to readers, and people become a child in the process of being infected by poetry, and find out the childlike heart, which is the real sense of growth." Adults 'grow' into a child, and that's what poetry does. ”
"This is a collection of poems that 'endured' out, and the poet 'boiled' his feelings about the world, his perception of life, and even his inner entanglements with the expressive form of poetry." Zang Yongqing, president of the People's Literature Publishing House, said that the poems in "Metamorphosis" have a strong philosophical rationality, "Philosophy is not easy to write, and it is easy to 'do' if it is not written well." This collection of poems deals well with the relationship between 'gan' and 'run', and embodies the tempering and polishing of language in the Chinese poetic tradition. ”
"I like what the Czech poet Seiffert said, the poet has no boundaries and barriers, we face different worlds and the same flowers bloom in our hearts." Zhao Lihong said, "This will not be my last collection of poems, as long as I am alive and want to make my life a quality life, I will continue to read and write poetry." ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu
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