About the Author
Ge Ping: Female, born in 1957, currently living in Jiexiu. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a director of the China Coal Mine Writers Association, and a vice chairman of the Jinzhong Writers Association. His works have been published in Poetry Journal, People's Literature, Stars Poetry Journal, Poetry God, Green Phoenix Poetry Journal, Poetry Newspaper Monthly, Beijing Literature, Shanxi Literature, Yellow River, Sunshine, Taiwan World Poetry Leaf, Autumn Water Poetry Journal, Vineyard Poetry Magazine and many other newspapers and periodicals. He has won many awards such as the 4th and 5th National Coal Mine Literature "Wujin Award", "The First Shanxi Poetry Competition Award", "Sunshine Literature Award", "Jin Chinese Scholarship Award" and so on. His works have been selected into many anthologies such as "Fifty Years of Literary and Art Creation in Shanxi Literature and Art Selection and Poetry Volume", Taiwan's "Haohao Qiushui", "Yang Yang Qiushui", "Love Autumn Water", "2013 Shanxi Literature Annual Works Selection poetry volume", "2015 Shanxi Literature Annual Works Selection and Poetry Volume" and so on. He is the author of the poetry collection "Statue of Dreams" and "Selected Short Poems of Ge Ping".
In my speech at a training course organized by the China Writers Association in Beijing this summer, I reviewed my creations in recent years, but I was also writing for the people: porters, waste pickers, shoemakers, laid-off workers, parents, and my own feelings about life. Later, when the poet Ye Zhen talked about the poetry creation in the past two years, he mentioned that the "New Century Poetry Dictionary" edited by Isa gave him a great shock and vigilance, and made him re-examine his poetry creation. Because we both sat next to each other and tried to write colloquial poetry, we both whispered, and the content of the whisper was about the creation of colloquial poetry.
After returning from Beijing, I, a basic internet illiterate, asked a friend to help me buy the fourth season of the "New Century Poetry Dictionary" online in Dangdang for the first time, and studied spoken poetry with great interest. Reading and reading, a little dazed, those spoken poems I once wrote, are they really spoken poems? Or what are colloquial lyric poems? Which are colloquial image poems? And which are the real spoken poems? For example, Zhang Mingyu's song
"Street Crossing"
People ran out
Only a few large caps remain
On the street
Eat ravioli
After reading this poem, I can't help but clap the case! With just this short four-line poem, is there anything else to be said? To tell the truth, such anti-corruption poetry, but those clumsy angry and angry critical reality works can be worthy of it? Let's take another look at Xu Jiang's
"I Ask"
There are no days of writing poetry
I was asking myself
Those half-baked materials
If at this moment write
What a taste it would be
This poem made my heart tremble when I read it, because Xu Jiang, a poet of middle age and above, hinted at a bright way to say goodbye to "youth writing", that is, to say goodbye to youth through more professional writing. The above two poems are undoubtedly excellent colloquial poems. Isha emphasizes that colloquial poetry is about writing what is seen, not imagined. This reminds me of a poem I wrote years ago
"Under the Sun..."
The lively "Yuhua Road" side
A neatly groomed crazy woman
In the bright sun
Front-page, red, color-printed advertisements in newspapers
After being folded in two by her
Placed in the crotch of the pants that fell off
The most secret thing about women
She was handled so frankly
A woman's "trouble period"
Her face was full of sunshine
There is no "anle" and "so comfortable"
She still has a cheerful face
It reminds me of my two-and-a-half-year-old niece
It is also a stretched smile
Also in front of everyone
Stuff napkins into your crotch
They are also not burdened by privacy
There's no need to keep secrets shut
They don't have to hide it
Happiness is great value for happiness
Ease is absolutely easy
When the contempt of passers-by was thrown at her
But she raised her head/sang to the sun in the sky
"Our life is full of sunshine"
After this period of pondering the sunshine of spoken poetry", she couldn't help but make a drastic subtraction of this spoken poem that she once thought, and finally she became like this:
A clean crazy woman
Fold the old newspaper three times and fold it in half
Front page, cover red, color print advertising
All of them were cushioned by her in the faded crotch
The "Great Aunt" came
She did not have "Ann Le" and "good comfort" to serve
Face the contemptuous gaze of passers-by
She raised her head
Sing to the sun in the sky:
"Our lives are full of sunshine..."
If the previous lyric poem belongs to the colloquialism, then the revised one is the real colloquial poem. Although they are all absolutely "seeing", the biggest difference between them is that the latter uses a more pure spoken language, abandons the ills of wanting to say everything, strengthens the control of emotions and rhythms and the expansion of space, makes the whole poem cleaner, seemingly unskilled language, but contains more advanced techniques, and she finally presents the poetry of facts. In fact, spoken language poetry is a very test of poet skills, so for me, spoken language poetry is even more unattainable.
In addition, the details are the elements of colloquial poetry, and the sense of presence of details is irreplaceable no matter how lyrical you are. This also reminds me of the phenomenon of a large number of details in the poetry world since the new century, poets adopt an objective narrative posture, the original ecological details, directly presented to the reader, injected the poetry with vivid and solid life content, so that the poetry is less empty and broad and sentimental, so that the poetry is closer to the reality of life itself, but also returns the right of judgment to the reader, the poet is not on top, but prostrate himself among all sentient beings. Of course, whether a poet or a writer, the angle from which the work is cut has already injected its own position into it. I have also deeply experienced in the poetry creation in recent years, if the details in the previous poems are mosaic, then the details in the poems in the later years seem to be more like a reproduction, such as the crazy woman in "Under the Sun..." in the street in full view of the public, dealing with the details of the menstrual holiday; the details of the monitor touching the belt buckle alarm in "The First Walk into the Great Hall of the People"; the husband in the cancer ward in "Pain Relief" while reading poems to alleviate fear and heartache, etc., they are the details of life. Reproduced unadorned in the poem, the work contains the complexity and ambiguity of life, which cannot be fully expressed in the previous one-way lyrical poetry. It is through the discovery and excavation of the poetry of ordinary life that the poet obtains the ability to write poetry of life, and the reproduction of details can make the reader get a sense of the scene at the first time, and also make any self-righteous, or self-conscious lyrical language seem so pale and powerless...
In fact, whether it is a novel, a poem or a prose, the details are always the most vivid, and they can also reveal the true nature of life, so that the details speak, far more tension than the author himself! In fact, really good oral poetry is very difficult to write, and at the same time, there are higher aesthetic requirements for readers, of course, oral poetry is only a genre of poetry, whether you are lyrical oral poetry, or colloquial lyric poetry, as long as it is a good poem, it will have the power to reach people's hearts.
September 22, 2016 in the West Window
As sensitive words are involved in individual places in the main text, it has been edited with slight changes
Editor of this issue: Zhao Jun