The Poetry of Yu Jian

Author: Yu Jian
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: Editor's Recommendation: This is a poetry collection by Yu Jian. The book is divided into five volumes: "The Imagination of the Hoe-Digger"; "The Boundary of the Evening"; "Events"; "Archives"; "Flight." The works included in the book are: "Work No. 57," "The Law of Apples," "The Tree for Seeking Shelter," "I Know a Kind of Love," "About Roses," "Spring Aria," "On the Bell Tower," "The Sound of Falling," and so on. In this increasingly smooth world, Yu Jian's poetry is one of the rare rough and raw voices. His poems often appear in a "non-poetic" manner, frequently opening up new possibilities for poetic writing by challenging the existing aesthetic order. He is someone who enters the world of poetry from the other end of language, an aesthetic heretic standing against poetry, but his simple and unreserved writing indeed rekindles our love for existence and things. The series of new works he published in 2002 reveal the poet's innocent nature, perfectly blending a traditional spirit with a rugged personal charm. His language also gains true poetic radiance by shedding its earthy roots. Yu Jian's writing reminds us that it should be the era and its aesthetics that yield to poetry, not the other way around. From the early "No. 6 on Shangyi Street" to later works like "Thank You, Father," "Zero Archive," and his extensive output in 2002, this book includes most of the author's creations from the 1980s to the 1990s. It features works such as "No. 6 on Shangyi Street," "Luo Jiasheng," "The Tree for Seeking Shelter," "Naming a Crow," "The Event Series," and the long poem "O Archive," "Flight," among others. Many of these works were published for the second time.