In April 2022, the headline poet of "Poetry Tide" was Qin Liyan. Under the title of "Something That Cannot Be Released", "Poetry Tide" published 18 poems by Qin Liyan. I seem to be a little impressed by this name, the "Peking University Female Poets Album" launched by the Poetry Journal in March, which seems to have Qin Liyan in it.
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Qin Liyan's poems can indeed be felt to be from women's hands. Qin Liyan's poems have a feeling of "lifting a heavy weight as light", that is, writing "big" problems relatively "lightly". For example, life, a theme that can never be written, in Qin Liyan's pen, is the "task" that everyone accepts (Qin Liyan's "Life is a Task").
Each of us has a different "task", and the things we experience and people are different. But, on the same end, our final belonging is the same, "Now, I'll give it back to you." "From receiving the task to returning the task, this is our life.
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Qin Liyan's "The Thing That Cannot Be Released" is the title given to this group of poems by "Poetry Tide", which is actually written in the life of a person. "We each hold such objects as if they were our children", and each of us has something that we cannot let go of. It could be a thing of the past, it could be a relationship, it could be a choice, it could be a decision.
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These things may not be worth mentioning to others. But for our parties, there is no way to get around. Like "a fog that refuses to disperse", like "a reef in the river", like "iron filings hidden in flowers", like "a tangled line". These things make us trapped in it and unable to extricate ourselves, like a "quagmire".
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Of course, the end result is the same. "Time will take it, because time will take us." What we can't let go of, with us, will be carried away by time. Reading Qin Liyan's poems will indeed make people feel "the lightness of life". We don't have to care so much, it's just a task, we don't have to dwell on it, time will take everything away.
Qin Liyan's language is very straightforward and frank, unlike some poets, who pretend to be a pile of some inexplicable words or branches of some gorgeous words. This is very rare in the current poetry world. Moreover, Qin Liyan's poems can indeed be recalled after reading, which is also rare in the current poetry world.
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Qin Liyan is obviously not influenced by some of the current poetic genres, such as "nonsense poetry", such as "anti-traditional", such as "anti-culture". Qin Liyan's poems are still between simplicity and poetry, and strive to find a better way to combine. Of course, this is difficult, but this direction is right, and it should be the direction that modern poetry should adhere to.
Perhaps for female reasons, Qin Liyan's poems are more concerned with "life" and do not have much to do with other fields. Of course, maybe it's because I've read so few poems. It gives people the feeling that Qin Liyan's poems have more feminine delicacy and less openness.
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But in general, through Qin Liyan's poems, she is already a good author among female poets. She didn't moan without illness, she didn't pretend to be sophisticated, and she didn't show off her skills. A poet like Qin Liyan can become a headline poet, which can also be regarded as a correction of modern poetry, which is a good sign.