"As a poet and novelist, Han Dong will never retire." On October 21, the "Han Dong Poetry Creation Seminar" sponsored by the Jiangsu Writers Association was held in Nanjing, and the poet and writer Han Dong is 60 years old this year, which is the first personal creation seminar in his 40-year writing career. At the meeting, Li Jingze, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary of the secretariat of the China Writers Association, said, "As a generation grows older, Han Dong has proved that strong creativity can be maintained at different stages of life. Our poetry and novels need artists like Han Dong, and we need people like Han Dong to walk in few, remote places, and his eyes can always inspire us powerfully. ”
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He brought poetry back to life as a "poet of poets"
At the seminar, the participating experts had at hand a copy of Han Dong's latest poetry collection, "Miracle", which contained 125 new poems written by Han Dong in the past one or two years. In the eyes of he Xiangyang, a poet and the director of the Creation and Research Department of the Chinese Writers Association, there is a key word in the poetry collection "Miracle" - "look". "The imagery of 'seeing' is so many, so moving, it is an emphasis, a search and affirmation of reality. In his case, the art of poetry became an art of 'contemplation'. There is a rare sense of painting and narrative in his poems, his poems are anti-lyrical, many of which you look very cold, he tries to explain them very abstractly, but he uses 'see' to visualize them. He Xiangyang said, "All beings are resurrected in 'seeing'. When you pay attention, when you are 'looking', it is an act of love, and poetry becomes the product of love. Moreover, Han Dong's 'seeing' also opens up the barriers between people, which is very precious in poetry. ”
Zhang Qinghua, a poet and professor at the Faculty of Letters at Beijing Normal University, believes that as an important poet who grew up in the mid-1980s, Han Dong can afford the title of "poet of poets": "He is a poet with methodological significance." When we read Han Dong's poems, we not only accept the poems in the sense of text, but also deeply influenced by his outlook on life and cognitive methods. The practice of deconstructivism in contemporary Chinese poetry did begin with Han Dong, as well as the values of populism and the advocacy of oral writing. ”
He Ping, a professor at the College of Literature of Nanjing Normal University, believes that talking about Han Dong's poetry is inseparable from talking about Han Dong as a person and talking about his literary activities in the 1980s and 1990s. "Han Dong is the representative of the 'third generation of poets', appearing as a PASS obscure poet in the guise of an aesthetic 'provocateur'. But since the new century, especially in recent years, he has lived in seclusion and stayed away from literary activities, and we rarely see him appear in poetry festivals that are frequently staged in various places. His daily routine is to take a lunch box to the studio to start the day's writing, and he is a marginal person in the noisy and fiery literary life. I would like to say that we cannot read Han Dong in the abstract 'Han Dong in the poet's sense', but a real and living Han Dong. ”
Xiao Hai, a poet and vice chairman of the Suzhou Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, believes that Han Dongzhi's importance lies in his returning poetry to life. "When we went to university in the 1980s Chinese department, we accepted the concept that 'literature should distill typical people in typical environments'. But Han Dong is not, he pulls poetry back to life, no longer looks down on life, no longer grand narrative, he feels that the poet is a member of the crowd, he returns to the basic humanity and the basic seven passions and six desires. This is a huge twist. From this we can say that a good poet is a poet with a worldview. ”
In the view of Zhu Yanling, the special editor-in-chief of "Flower City", Han Dong writes poetry, not performance, let alone singing. His personalization is not expressed as catharsis, but rather his love of small incisions and emphasis on personal experience. "There are no flashy words, no strong emotions, superficial indifference, and in the depths is reverence for all life, but also warm and heavy. This pain of life is far from romanticism, metaphysical, and philosophical. ”
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"Han Dong always writes good poetry, and his writing is very clean"
On the same day, the seminar also invited several experts with special status, they are not only scholars, writers, but also Han Dong's relatives and friends group, the lineup of this "family and friends group" is quite large, including Professor Su Tong of Beijing Normal University, Ye Zhaoyan, Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, Professor Li Xiaoshan of Nanjing Academy of Arts, Professor Mao Yan of Nanjing Academy of Arts, and Huang Xiaochu, former President of Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, all of whom recalled their acquaintance with Han Dong.
Huang Xiaochu said that he was still in college when he knew Han Dong's name, and then came to Nanjing, the first time he saw Han Dong was in the spring of 1986, "The first time I saw Xiao Hai in Han Dong's house, when Han Dong's house was already full of friends, Su Tong and I arrived and received a very warm hospitality from Han Dong, the best duck I have ever eaten in my life is the osmanthus duck eaten at Han Dong's house, that is, the old duck in the osmanthus season." Huang Xiaochu said that he is a layman for poetry, and often does not know where poetry is good, but he can see what is bad poetry, and Han Dong always writes good poetry, "because I can never write such poetry."
Su Tong and Han Dong met in 1984, "One day I rode a bicycle through the whole city of Nanjing to Han Dong's home on Ruijin Road, when I knew Han Dong, he was already brewing to write a novel, for Han Dong's poetry I was like a college student at that time, "About the Big Wild Goose Pagoda" "You have seen the sea" such poems we can all memorize", about Han Dong to write novels, Su Tong told everyone that Han Dong likes to write in a clean field, "even if it is a table, he hopes to be clean, So in a sense, it is also a symbol, some like Han Dong, some don't like Han Dong, but everyone thinks that Han Dong's writing is very clean."
Regarding the "group of relatives and friends", Ye Zhaoyan believes that his relationship with Han Dong is more of a relative, because he was born to know him, "everyone can recall when they began to know him, but I don't know when I knew this person when I was a child." In the middle of Ye Zhaoyan's memory, he and Han Dong's brother have been playing together since they have a memory, "I did a ridiculous thing with his brother, there are book stalls in many places in Nanjing, we will often go to see the villain books, Han Dong follows us, I am a relatively kind person, his brother often pulls me to run, after the two of us go out, I have such an impression in my childhood memory, what if this child is gone, my earliest memory of Han Dong is like this." Ye Zhaoyan believes that Han Dong's biggest advantage is that he is a good person, and he hopes that if young people learn from Han Dong, they will still learn more about the kind of good that is good, "The temperament of a poet is more important than poetry."
Mao Yan, who has worked with Han Dong for two years in recent years, recalls that the two of them would talk about literature and poetry almost every day, especially talking about poetry more, "Han Dong may just talk casually, but it is particularly enjoyable for me and has become very interesting."
Li Xiaoshan affectionately called Han Dong "Han Er", "So more cordial, our relatives and friends group is Han Er's mother's family, the mother's family heard many guests give Han Er such praise, I am particularly happy, such praise hopes to come a little more, because Han Er deserves it."
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"Not used to it and didn't know the rules, but it was the first time for me"
"I'm not used to it and I don't know the rules, but it gave me a chance to thank you." For the first personal seminar in his life, Han Dong said, "Over the years, writing has been helped by friends, I remember the people who helped me very well, there are too many people to thank, thank you." ”
When it comes to poetry, Han Dong shares his point of view: "Our generation of poets who write in modern Chinese have indeed reached a peak in the creation of modern Chinese poetry in China. The subject here is not me, but my generation. There are two factors, one is the maturity of modern Chinese, and the other is a sense of world consciousness. What is world consciousness? World consciousness is not local consciousness, not central consciousness, nor only Western consciousness, but naturally 'in the world'. You are a part of the whole and do not conflict with the whole. It is not the kind of existence that can only be established in the sense of opposites, contrasts, and competitions. As far as poetry is concerned, these two points are the reasons why a generation has made great progress. ”
The seminar was presided over by Ding Jie, member of the party group and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Wang Xingguo, secretary of the party group and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, said that in the 1980s, the "third generation of poets" made significant contributions to the development of "literature in the new era". In this process, Han Dong, as one of the main representative poets of this genre, walked in the forefront of his colleagues. His references to "About the Big Wild Goose Pagoda", "You Have Seen the Sea" and "Poetry to language" have also entered the "classicization channel" in the name of "literary history", and a series of new poems marked with unique styles that he created after 1985 have become an important part of China's new poetry history.
"We held a successful and pleasant seminar," said Bi Feiyu, a writer and chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, in his concluding remarks: "For Han Dong personally, this meeting may not be so important, but for us Jiangsu Writers Association, this meeting is very important." Jiangsu is a fertile land for literature, and naturally it is also a fertile soil for poetry. Han Dong's person, Han Dong's text, Han Dong's poetic spirit, Han Dong's poetic aesthetics, including his personality as a poet, are all very precious. For the sake of the future of our Jiangsu literature, especially the future of poetry, we must do a good job in the study of Han Dong and go deeper. Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
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