Zhao Xing Shi Bai Shou

Author: Li Zhaoxing
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Fine-tuning Li Zhaoxing's new poetry collection, it feels a bit narrow to apply existing aesthetic terms from poetics. The Qing Dynasty poet Zhao Yi once wrote in a poem: "In youth, learning language was hard to perfect, I thought it half-achieved; When old, I knew it was not force alone, one-third effort, seven-thirds heaven." Just like Feng Jicai wrote in the preface to Li Zhaoxing's earlier published literary works, "Talent is like spring grass, full of a yearning bursting from the earth." He also said, "the best preface should be a post-reading reflection." While reading, I faintly felt that interpreting Li Zhaoxing's poems with current theories seemed like an unfounded vanity; facing this vast ocean of poetry, after sighing in admiration, I could only hastily pick up those thought-provoking fragments. This book includes:
Harmonious Symphony of Passion and Warmth – Preface to "One Hundred Poems of Zhaoxing";
Visiting Marx's Tomb in London;
Singing for the Motherland – Green Watermelon;
On the Road to Xianxing;
Dialogue with the Black Sea;
Singing for the Motherland – Ningxia Opera;
Boating in the Rain;
In the Homeland of Mozart and Hitler;
I Wasn't Like This Before – Seeing the "Golden Village Chinese Park" in the U.S.;
The United Nations Small Garden;
Goodbye, New York – A Gift to "The Bridge" Newspaper;
Third Visit to Lake Lemmon – Ode on International Children's Day;
Dream Far – After Discovering Eye Problems During a Meeting;
Santiago Letters;
New Zealand Impressions – Aerial View;
Sydney Opera House Kangaroo – A Slightly Apologetic Teasing;
Distant Aurora – Sketch of a Young Chinese Diplomat;
Hong Kong at Night;
Sixth Trip to Africa;
Reminiscing About Yantai, Shandong;
Questioning the Sky Without Rain, etc.