Yangtze River Daily, Wuhan, March 20 (Reporter Li Xu) Mao Dun Literature Prize winner and contemporary poet writer Zhang Wei's latest long poem "Iron and Silk" was recently published.
Based on the traditional Chinese classical culture and the Western poetic traditions such as "Homer's Epic", "Faust", and "Wasteland", the work spans the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the current historical time and space, takes the history of Dongyi research as the entry point, takes the history and culture of the Qi state as the fulcrum, takes the author's iron-blooded tenderness for the rivers and mountains of the motherland as the emotional clue, fully mobilizes all the spiritual resources and writing skills such as historical and cultural facts, historical changes of more than a thousand years, and the author's historical and cultural research, and constructs a masterpiece with huge historical time and space as the carrier with great difficulty.
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The work makes full use of humanities, thought, history, philosophy, literature, art and other comprehensive means, with a strong spiritual background and writing energy beyond ordinary people, to create a huge macro structure, but also with postmodernism fragmentation but all-encompassing characteristics of composite poetry text, the combination of points and surfaces, through the ancient and modern, the creation of extremely difficult, with a strong impact and creativity.
This long poem is divided into sixteen chapters, taking the specific space familiar to the writer as the geographical background, the narrative content travels through the ancient Qi country and today's society, integrates into the long historical civilization and the historical culture of the coastal civilization, and completes the artistic transcendence through history and culture in the form of poetry.
Critics believe that "Zhang Wei's long poems are like a thick and grand symphony, time and space are open and closed, the imagery is rich, the momentum is magnificent, the rhythm is clear and full of long rhyme, expressing the love and attachment to nature, life and homeland, bringing readers aesthetic enjoyment." ”
【Editor: Zhang Jing】
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