The headline poet of Green Wind in March 2022 was HaiNan, and Green Wind published 7 poems by Hai Nan under the title of "All the darkness of the world is secretly dreaming". In my mind, wasn't Hai Nan just the headline poet of a certain publication? The results of the search came out, and the headline poet of "Yerba Buena" in February 2022 was her.
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Under the title of "Totem Story", "Yerba Buena" published 28 poems by Hai Nan. Each poem is not short, and "Yerba Buena" gives a considerable amount of space. And this search, there are unexpected results, HaiNan was also once the headline poet of "Mountain Flower", "Flower City", "Writer", "Caotang", "October" and other publications, she is simply a "headline poet" professional household.
Hai Nan's poems have a characteristic, that is, "long". Not only is the poem long, but every line is long. Unlike some people's poems, where a few words are a line, HaiNan's poems are basically full of every line, just like natural line breaks. Such poems, which are less jumpy and coherent to read, are a bit less like poetry than like prose.
This "A Long Time Ago", one of the works of Hai Nan published in "Green Wind", is one of her rare relatively short poems. The words "a long time ago" run through the poem, and the theme is quite prominent. The poem still feels a little bit, as if it is nostalgic for the past, remembering someone.
In 2014, she won the Lu Xun Literature Award Poetry Award for her poetry collection "The Sorrowful Black Elk", which is the highest award of our poetry award. In November 2020, Hainan won the "Top Ten Female Poets in China" award, and xiaoxiao and Shi Shiran won this award with her.
In 2021, Hai Nan won the "Best Achievement Award of the 6th China Long Poetry Award" with "The Beauty of Arrival". Interestingly, she won the award with Xiao Xiao and Shi Shiran. It gives people the feeling that Hai Nan, Xiao Xiao and Shi ShiRan are the three pillars of women in today's poetry world.
Hai Nan not only wrote poetry, but also wrote novels, but also created a lot of novels. Not only that, But Hainan also wrote essays and published a collection of essays. This has to be admired, novels, essays, poetry, sea men can create with ease, harvest a lot.
However, Hainan's most famous field is poetry. The awards she won were poetry prizes. Hai Nan also edited the "Selected Poems of Chinese Women Poets", and since 2017, a poetry selection has been published every year. The editors-in-chief of the 2017 and 2018 volumes are all Hainan, and Shi Shiran is the deputy editor-in-chief. But after the 2019 volume, the editor-in-chief became Shi Shiran, and Hainan didn't even have a name.
Shi Shiran (Image from the Internet)
What is so good about Hai Nan's poetry? I didn't see it anyway. But since she is a frequent visitor to headline poets and has won many awards, her poems should be really good. Therefore, I hope that there will be a high person to point out one or two, where is the poetry of hainan?
In fact, not only the poems of Hai Nan, but also the poems of almost all "famous poets" now make people wonder where the good is. But their poems can be published publicly, and they can even win awards. Therefore, this "mystery" really needs to be pointed out by a high person: what kind of poetry is good poetry? This is actually a very important question.
Otherwise, what was originally a good poem was treated as a bad poem by people who "don't know the truth", such as me, which is unfair to poets and harmful to the "ecology" of poetry. And if a "bad poem" is touted as a good poem, it is even more harmful. The major "famous poets" and "famous critics" have said a lot, but they go around and around, that is, they don't say what kind of "good poetry" is, and they are anxious to die.