Poetry Review 丨 Ichikawa: A Humanist Walking in a Poetry Canyon

A humanist walking in a canyon of poetry

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There are many poets with humanistic spirit, but there are very few poetry writers who have both humanistic spirit and "natural poet" characteristics, so the reader's attention in the Chinese poetry field will inevitably shift to the text of the poet Li Shaojun. Li Shaojun's poetry has a responsibility that transcends the logic of capital, and when urbanization is constantly built on the human body and mind, his text undoubtedly promotes its own humanistic attitude in reflection. In a way this reflection has made it a characteristic character that he wants to reach. In Accidents he writes:

"Crossroads

A car collided with another

Two cars with their toes ramming into the air were shattered to pieces in an instant

……

A simple small mourning service

Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce

All joined in, without exception."

The use of inanimate objects to impress living people is the unique ability of the poet Li Shaojun, in "Crash" he reflects on the state of the car after the car accident in a smooth posture, and the logic of this reverse reasoning seems to reinterpret the meaning of man, as well as death itself, in some of Kundera's "celebrating meaninglessness", which is undeniably one of the most important qualities of the poet, drilling out poetic cracks and canyons on top of solid reality:

"The kind of heartache when the car gets hit

It is the same, it is also to endure a kind of death

An unavoidable fate

The man was safe and sound, but the car was covered with scars."

Such ingenious reflection on the plain language, which is not evocative, what is the ultimate meaning of death and non-death, occurrence and non-occurrence, he does not utter a "secret word" but returns it to the compact language, leaving the reader to think and explore, this process always completes what a poet or "artist" should do, faithfully cashing in on the ultimate understanding and answer of poetry. This is in line with his usual "self-heating poet", and this language structure and thinking just happen to complete the humanistic care of his modernity. In this, in "Short Life in Shanghai", he depicts how to "enter the world" with the perception of looking through things:

"Drink tea by the Shang Lake and watch the white birds descending."

Go to the Kofuku Zen Temple to listen to the bells, and let the pine nuts fall into their clothes

Crisscrosses the Yangtze River Delta

On Huchang Road, the carriages rose and fell

Is methanol how much a ton

I'm going to add another container of cargo and so on

The tone is short, anxious, and occasionally depressed and tired

At one point it was a weekend reserved program for my short life in Shanghai

And as a middle-class fashion brand

I can't go back and forth either

Became a salesman running east and west in the Yangtze River Delta."

The poet Li Shaojun's "accession to the world" is not only a journey through life, but an observer of modernity in China in the known domain, and this observation brings his thoughts to the steel and cement above the earth. It is an expression after a violent collision, a personal style that spreads from poetry to reality, and such an expression is also unfolding towards the dimension of "supernaturality".

The essence of "spiritual intercourse with heaven and earth alone" does not refer to the divine seat that a person can reach heaven as soon as he is born. This process must go through a "thousand knives" to carve an icon of the god of poetry. The short poem "The Little Station Where God Descends" is full of the highest faith outside the sky of the poet Li Shaojun, and the poetic heart of "I am as small as an ant" to "the vast north where God dwells" completes two important parts in two lines of poetry, that is, the head of the human world and the feet standing on the earth, and it is such a strong realist compassion that stands in the center of this poem. In a short line of poetry, he uses several images such as "the harsh early winter night like a fierce tiger", "the slowly flowing Erguna River", "the endless and concise birch forest", "the quiet twinkling stars in the low sky" and other images to summarize what is "the vast earth", what is the "tiger rose" seems to be able to distinguish a clear outline between heaven and earth, as a lone traveler lives in the vast north of the heart of the brave.

The poet Li Shaojun cares about this, which is in line with the quality of a southerner living in the north, constantly absorbing and summarizing the introduction and enriching the connotation of the text. And this time "Seaside Nostalgia" did not let the time of the two deliberately disperse, he walked in the depths of the memories of that thought, to capture the most valuable things, that is, a little dew in the "cloud dark grass and trees", the waves that occurred in the summer were taken away by the "hidden wind" uselessly, this is an affectionate glimpse of the world, hesitating in the summer rain, the temperature and taste of the rain everyone tastes, but it is completely different, or this is the meaning of existence that the poet Li Shaojun believes.

Attached: Li Shaojun poetry

accident

crossroads

So, all the cars that roared and whizzed away

Pause for a moment

They looked around cautiously

The probe slowed down probingly

They even paused in silence for a moment

Then, go around the steel corpse and fly away

The pause in silence was as if it were a brief moment of silence

All joined in, without exception

Short life in Shanghai

Drink tea by the shore of Shang Lake and watch the white birds leisurely descend

Fall asleep quietly in a small hotel under Yu Mountain...

Good times are always too short to reminisce

The highway spreads rapidly like capillaries

I met her later

I was laid back and made her anxious

I felt the abnormality of my life

Her anxiety interfered with me

Became a salesman running east and west in the Yangtze River Delta

Crash

When the car rides by

The rumble of the metal beast was low and cloudy

Its high-horsepower impact is unstoppable

No flesh can resist its gentle impact

The moment the car hits the dog

My body shrank and my heart tightened

The pain is like ink swirling on rice paper

Emergency braking, also can not avoid all this

Like countless times

The car took a crash for the person

The kind of heartache when the car is hit

The man was safe and sound, but the car was covered with scars

I saw the car accident again

The man fell to the ground, and the blood seemed to stain his sleeves

That shocking red

It really happened, but it didn't seem real

Time stands still, as if it were the halfway point of a TV series

The bicycle is like a prop for decoration

The car also seemed to be doing nothing

Only the man, slowly paralyzed

Finally, the limbs are facing the sky

The little station where God came

Three or five chalets

Splash a little or two lights

I'm as small as an ant

Tonight stranded in the middle of the Hulunbuir Grassland

A nameless little station

Alone and lonely but at peace of mind

Behind him stood the harsh early winter night of a fierce tiger

Behind it, there is a clear and empty road

Behind it, the Erguna River flows slowly

In the darkness it shone like a white light

Behind it, there is an endless and concise birch forest

and the vast wilderness of the dry and clear

Behind them, there are stars shining quietly in the low sky

And the gentle night of the blue velvet

Behind it is the vast north where God dwells

Pregnant by the sea

The clouds are dark and the grass is deep

As I wandered under the forest, I had a premonition that something gloomy was gathering

And I still miss her bright and gorgeous like a red hibiscus flower

She's sexy, like the wet summer air is full of moisture

You can always pour me a sweet and happy rain

It is like the wind lurking in the trees by the sea

You can set off three charming waves at any time

Li Shaojun, born in 1967, a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, graduated from the Department of Journalism of Wuhan University in 1989, and his main works include "Nature Collection", "Haitian Collection", "Grassroots Collection", "Little Station where God Descends", etc., and is known as a "natural poet". He was the editor-in-chief of Tianya magazine and is now the editor-in-chief of Poetry Journal, a first-class writer.

Yichuan, a well-known poetry critic and poet, whose works have appeared in newspapers and poetry anthologies such as "Stars", "Yangtze River Poetry Journal", "Poetry Tide", "Yalu River", "People's Liberation Army Daily", "People's Armed Police Alarm" and other newspapers and poetry anthologies.