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Author: Song Xiaoxian
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: In the 1990s, a large number of foreign literary works were introduced to China, bridging Chinese literature with world literature and giving rise to many outstanding poets. Due to the collision and debate of literary concepts, people held different views. Because of a greater focus on disputes and topics, many excellent poetic works were overlooked among them. The ten poets featured in this volume have diverse styles, but at the same time, one can glimpse their exceptional clarity and self-respect in practicing poetic language and space. Song Xiaoxian's poetry lacks ornate words or exaggerated pretense—it is like a neighbor, seemingly casual, narrating the authentic reality of life's underpinnings to you, the tragedy in the ordinary, the brightness in the common. The poet pours out the joys and sorrows, weaknesses and strengths of life with a spiritual touch that permeates their being. They capture and re-create everything they have personally experienced, the countless lives that share similar feelings, starkly and openly, condensing life, summarizing the era, and embracing the world with cries forged in their own blood.