In 2020, American poet Louis Glick won the Nobel Prize in Literature. That's a lot of people who never read his poems or never knew him, but writing poetry was very important to Gleek.
Born into a Hungarian Jewish family, Glick grew up painting and writing poetry, but later gave up painting but still wrote poetry. After entering puberty, Glick unfortunately suffered from anorexia, and from then on, writing became an effective cure for him.
Physician Liu Xiangyang mentioned in a previous sharing event that many famous poets, including Anne Sexton, suffered from anorexia or other psychoanalysis before embarking on the road of writing poetry. It is actually a common treatment. The only difference is that in the process, some people become real poets, and some people still don't come out in the end. At this point I admire Glik very much, he is like a caterpillar that finally turns into a butterfly.
The 2014 National Book Award-winning Night of Loyalty was a shift in Glick's poetic style.
Recently, this book has been published in Chinese translation by Century Wenjing. Before the book was published, Glick's mother had died, and he felt orphaned again. In this collection of poems, in the lonely state of mind of his later years, Glick once again tries to dialogue with the important people and events that have shaped his life, and he no longer uses mythological intentions directly. Hotno's emotions were replaced by more immersive, cold scrutiny, revealing a diamond-like cold light.
From the very beginning of the poetry collection, he was dominated by the logic of dreams in the Middle Ages. In this fantasy, the daytime confusion is not lifted, but again appears as a symbol and prophecy. The whole book of poems goes back and forth between thinking and dreaming. In an interview after its publication that year, he said that the book took him five years to write, but the writing process was not satisfactory. I wrote with great pleasure. Although I thought the writing was terrible, I really felt like a mess.
As I wrote, I thought about what kind of extraterrestrial stuff I was writing, and he listened to his friend's advice to read Kafka's super-short stories for formal inspiration. Eventually he experimented with the rhythm of prose poetry. Catherine Davis.
I suggested that I read Kafka's super short stories, and I can't say I liked them. But that means I can use that form.
So I started writing prose poetry, and this writing also gave him a mixed feeling. This is also the self-contradictory psychology that occurs in the writing process of many poets.
When the book of poems finally came out, he began to accept the work. Strangely, I now feel like this is one of the best books I've ever written. But that's not what I thought at the time. Of course, I didn't expect the book to have such a design at the time, but I just thought that long poems needed to be breathable. After that I saw things I hadn't seen before.
Tonight, I read from the poems in the poetry collection into stories about family affection, love and trauma.
