I only in my eyes

Author: Xie Lun
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: "I Only See It in My Eyes" aims to challenge the popular "yellow" (explicit short messages) circulating in mobile phone texting, purify the phone screen, and promote the healthy development of mobile phone literature. The book includes nearly 90 short poems, each accompanied by trendy illustrations. Additionally, musicians have composed music for three of the poems included in the book. Furthermore, the publisher has placed a call for submissions on the book's back cover, inviting short message poems, with the intention of publishing an anthology of outstanding works in the future. As mobile phones become increasingly prevalent in people's lives, "mobile phone literature" as a medium of dissemination has also gained popularity. In the recently passed year of 2004, "mobile message novels" emerged, even leading to a farce where four books competed for the title of "". In fact, among the various forms of literature, poetry is the most suitable for mobile phone dissemination. At the beginning of the New Year in 2005, China's first mobile message poetry collection, "I Only See It in My Eyes," will be launched in major cities across the country before the Spring Festival. The first printing of this poetry collection is 30,000 copies, setting a new record for the highest first-run print number of poetry collections in recent years. Poetry is the most suitable form of literature for mobile phone dissemination. Xie Lun, the author and poet of "I Only See It in My Eyes," says, "Since sending messages has become a habit for people, why not let them experience this poetic world through healthy messages?" Xie Lun adds that the widespread circulation of sexually explicit segments has had the greatest negative impact of reducing the creation of "green jokes" that were once enjoyed by both the refined and the popular. Mobile phone literature should also advocate for a "green" and eco-conscious approach.