Mo Yan, the first Nobel laureate in literature on the mainland, won the prize for his novel. However, as soon as the time entered 2022, Mo Yan's poems were published. In the first issue of Shanghai Literature in 2022, he published seven of his poems under the title of "The Bronze Statue of Neruda": "The Bronze Statue of Neruda", "Thorns and Love", "Read You", "Turtle", "Fool", "End" and "Sense of Smell".
This is not the end, and then in February 2022, the "headline poet" of the Poetry Anthology was Mo Yan. The Selected Poems, titled "The End," once again published all seven of his poems. This should not be counted as a manuscript submitted and published many times, because the "Selected Poetry Journal" is not an original work, but "the only poetry anthology in China", and the purpose is to "select the best poets and choose the best poems".
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Therefore, Mo Yan's seven poems were published again, and it was the "Selected Poems" that felt that Mo Yan's poems were "the best". He also became the "headline poet" in February, which should be too good to be good, like a treasure. Below shows a fragment of "The Bronze Statue of Neruda", which is somewhat long.
How good is this poem? It is estimated that this incomplete display can not let people appreciate the style of the whole poem, interested friends can go to search and search to see. These seven poems can not only be selected by the Selected Poems, but also become the headline poets, which should be the best poems before February 2022.
Mo Yan actually wrote poetry often, not just this time improvisation. In the 12th issue of Beijing Literature in 2019, Mo Yan's long poem "Dumpling Song" was published. This long poem is estimated to exceed the average person's understanding of "poetry", and Beijing Literature classifies it as a "poetic novel", saying that "Mo Yan's ingenious and creative latest creation is an extremely rare poetic novel in the contemporary literary world".
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"With his whimsical ideas and simple and flexible words, he paints us a picture of reality that is both virtual and real, interesting and fierce and cruel." This "Dumpling Song" is longer, and it can only let everyone see the beginning. However, seeing this beginning, it is enough.
In November 2020, the "Fifth China Long Poetry Award" was awarded, and Mo Yan's "Dumpling Song" won the "Special Award". "'Dumpling Song' is a grand and imposing poem full of philosophical propositions, speculative colors and critical spirit, shining with an alternative poetic light of great wisdom and foolishness", this is part of the award speech.
Among the outstanding works of 2019 evaluated by Beijing Literature, mo yan's "Dumpling Song" is also included. However, in this award, Mo Yan's "Dumpling Song" was classified as a "short story" instead of a "poem". I wonder if these seven poems by Mo Yan will become the outstanding works of 2022 by Shanghai Literature and Selected Poems? Estimates are likely.
In fact, as early as 2008, Mo Yan wrote a poem "Yandang Mountain", which was also engraved on the stone wall of Yandang Mountain and became a landscape. Therefore, Mo Yan did not write poetry on a whim, but always wrote. And the poems he wrote, either winning awards or carved in stone, should be good poems.
This inevitably gives people an association: Mo Yan will not change careers, do not write novels and rewrite poetry, right? It is estimated that there is really a possibility. Writing novels is too much effort after all, and writing poetry seems to be much easier. In particular, writing modern poetry seems to be divided into branches, whether he is prose or fiction.
The point is that the poems written can still be published, and even major publications are rushing to get them. Not only can it be published, but it can also be awarded, which is obviously why not? If this is the case, then there will be one less "famous novelist" and one more "famous poet" in our literary circles.
Whether it is a novelist or a poet, after all, he is a person in the literary world, and he has not crossed the border too far. If Mo Yan can make the current poetry world a little better, it is also very good. However, judging from his poems, it seems a little difficult. On the contrary, his poems, such as "Dumpling Song", caused a lot of controversy and did not give the poetry circle a "just name".