Life is not "only a clear loneliness" and "crisp sound"
Reading Mr. Shang Zhen's poetry collection "Crisp Sound" one by one has a feeling
Text/Liu Xiaoping
On the occasion of the little cold in 2021, Mr. Shang Zhen, the former executive deputy editor-in-chief of the Poetry Journal (presiding over the work), signed and presented me with his newly published poetry collection "Crisp Sound", which I received on the eve of the Spring Festival. Throughout the Spring Festival, his book "Crisp Sound" became my spiritual food. When reading any book, I have a habit of reading prefaces or commentaries first, and I do the same with his poetry collections.
I first read the reading and commentary articles of Lin Mang and Lu Ye. Between Lin Mang and Shang Zhen, they are colleagues and friends, and they are people who know the roots. He gave the evaluation of "Crisp Sound", I may wish to excerpt a paragraph here: "Shang Zhen's poems, I am familiar with, I thought his poems have two points: First, it is easy to read, but the connotation is not simple. He writes in a colloquial way, and each poem reflects the ingenuity of the mind and the unique discovery of experience; the second is the rebuttal and richness behind the concise language. He presents the experience of life and the experience of culture to the reader in a flexible and direct language. His works involve many aspects of social life and the experience and perception of life, all of which are derived from reality and rooted in life. These features are still there in "Crisp Sound", but they are more in-depth, insightful and liberating than the previous works. The evaluation is sincere and weighty, but the title of his reading is to borrow a verse from a poem by the author: living by water / Cooking with fire / Fire cannot be separated from water / People live between water and fire. His title is "Between Fire and Water." They are colleagues and friends, but also poets, Teacher Lin Mang is a master in the poetry world, but also a critic of poetry, I have no doubt that he believes in his wonderful meaning.
The German scholar Adorno famously said: "After Auschwitz, it was cruel to write poetry." "Yes, as a person who has always insisted on writing poetry, I know the weight of its famous words. Mr. Shang Zhen and I are the same year, from my understanding of him, our temper and personality are generally the same, I also insist on oral poetry, but the level and achievement of writing poetry do not dare to compare with it, the gap is too far, but the temperature of the two of us in life perception and experience in the world is roughly similar, both have a complex state of mind and not very gentle feelings. However, Teacher Shang Zhen has presided over the work of "Poetry Journal" for many years, what he precipitates is thought, what is activated is inspiration, and the works he writes always give people clarity and tolerance, and when readers reminisce and taste, they share from the five tastes and miscellaneous chen, followed by an aesthetic synaesthesia that will smile. For example: I will not forgive the person who abandoned me / The person I gave up has been forgotten by me / From adolescence to old age is the water that constantly filters away the sediment / In the end, only a clear loneliness remains. But this aesthetic synaesthesia is sad, and I like blind happiness, I want to encourage Shang Zhen here: life nirvana, will not be "only a clear loneliness, but also the rainbow bridge and colorful under the sunset." ”
Nietzsche said, "God is dead(Zarathustra says")," but the poet lives, you are a poet, you are a person who has experienced time and reality, you are a person who has the possibility to write meanings and thoughts. Teacher Lin Mang finally explained that the reason why he used "between water and fire" as the title of the reading review is because he believes that you are a person who has undergone some kind of experience and seriously faced the transformation of modern art, and only then did he write the experience and feelings of the characteristics of the times in this collection of poems. You are a true poet, a poet who is not willing to be a liar, a devotee, a wanderer, a gyroscopic driven out of nothing. These are The feelings of Teacher Lin Mang about you, and they are also my feelings, and I think they will also be the feelings of all readers who have read this collection of wooden poems.
Lu is also a poet and a professor, but in his article "In Such a Lonely Moment", he talks more about his feelings after reading from the aspects of poetry theory, poetry essence, and poetry context. He understands that in the process of writing "Crisp Sound", on the one hand, the poet has the "pleasure of breaking the window paper layer by layer in order to expose the truth... It embodies the strength of free will and the bravery to face a bleak life. On the other hand, the process of writing the whole collection of poems is also a process of self-redemption of the poet, and poetry has a passage that both strictly guards secrets and leaks secrets, enters the deepest part of the human soul and consciousness, sublimates pain and radiates the brilliance of poetry and thought. This is undoubtedly where he most understands the poet's heart. However, I am a person who is emotional and not rational, and reading through the whole text, what I feel most deeply is that when he saw the title, he remembered the wrestling cannon he played when he was a child, which only needed to be thrown so casually, and it made a "crackling" explosion sound, which was crisp and crisp. And after I read through this collection of poems, I did find a crunchy feeling that haunted my mind. For example, some people say that there is no fire in the paper / It must be secular paper / I see paper full of poems / There is a roaring flame hidden. For example: the east coast and the west coast can not see each other / the land under the water / is connected together / more like a secret love. For example: Legend has it that halloween nights / ghosts will return to the human world / and I see / are all humans wearing masks and pretending to be ghosts. For example: attending an international poetry exchange meeting / I left the table halfway through / Not leaving early but not understanding / I don't allow myself to pretend not to understand. For example: such a good moon is missing when it is round and round / So white lotus flowers are dry when they open / So sharp blades are rusty when idle / So heroic language is false when it is said. as:...... Or don't be like this, in a word: the verses in the poetry collection, like sanskrit sounds, for a long time, are life and philosophy!
Liu Xiaoping, currently a first-class researcher and honorary chairman of zhangjiajie Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, is a member of the China Writers Association, a director of the Chinese Poetry Society, the chairman of the China International Tourism Poetry Alliance, the honorary vice president of the Hunan Poetry Society, the vice president of the Provincial Prose Literature Society, and the chairman of the Zhangjiajie International Tourism Poetry Association. He has published works in dozens of newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Literature", "Poetry Journal", "Ethnic Literature", "Chinese Writers", "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "Literature Newspaper" and so on. At present, there are 15 literary works such as "The Cottage of Love", "Autumn Poetry", "Fables of The City and the Countryside", "Zhangjiajie Love Story", "Strange Mountains and Rivers Zhangjiajie", "All the Way Scenery", "Labin", "Wei Yuan" and other literary works, including the short and medium stories "Deyue Lou", "The Taste of Love", "Bandits", "Xuefeng Anecdotes" and so on. His prose works have been selected into dozens of anthologies and the third lesson of the second volume of the newly compiled nine-year compulsory junior high school chinese textbook, and some works have been translated to the United States, Japan, Vietnam, etc., and he is the fourth student of the Writers Advanced Research Class of Lu Xun Literature Institute. His poetic works have been honored by Han Zuo, former president of the Chinese Poetry Society and former editor-in-chief of People's Literature, as "Fables of The City and the Countryside". He has won more than 20 national literary awards, was named "National Top Ten Powerful Poets" in 2018, and won the "Second Tujia Literature Award of China" in 2019, and is the winner of the first "Virtue and Art Shuangxin" artist in Hunan Province.