On Nanjing Road, two galloping horses

Author: Meng Lang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Poets are rare, scarce, two galloping horses on Nanjing Road. Meng Lang's poetry has always presented a certain fervent surreal style. This style is rooted in an uncompromising spirit; neither to the world, nor to oneself, nor to nothingness. Yet this in no way, seemingly, affects its innate quality of soaring. Meng Lang's kind of flight has nothing to do with elegance, but triumphs with grandeur, sharpness, and variety. — Tang Xiaodu (Critic, Senior Editor / Beijing)
For years, Meng Lang has proven himself a pure and self-respecting lyric poet through his restraint, austerity, and perseverance, maintaining silence and low profile while persisting in engaging with and taking responsibility for major issues. He is also a modernist who has remained steadfast, adhering to all the virtues and dedication of modernist poetry. — Huang Canran (Poet, Translator / Hong Kong)
Meng Lang is the of poetry, an eternal long-distance runner, which is why it is said, "A hundred years have already passed, but he still cannot reach the peak, in despair." — Ye Hui (Poet, Senior Media Professional / Hong Kong)
For over two decades, Meng Lang's poetry has revealed a scholar's yearning to redeem the entire world. In the chronicle of modern Chinese poetry, Meng Lang's sensibility appears sharper, more ethereal, and more incisive. His poetic needles are finer, sharper, and closer to darkness and blood. Meng Lang has created a unique abstract, progressive, and ever-intensifying linguistic sensibility, with which he pierces through the pain of humanity. — Xu Jingya (Poet, Critic / Shenzhen)
In the 1980s, Meng Lang influenced an entire era of poetry with his convincing writing and productive poetry promotion activities. In the 1990s, his works 《》 and 《》 were published one after another, radiating inherent brightness, heat, and radiance, achieving true, meaningful returns. — Liu Manliu (Poet, Writer / Shanghai)
Meng Lang's works mark a rare anomaly in contemporary Chinese poetry with their fierce, untamed shifts in imagery and vertical, sharp rhythmic style. What distinguishes Meng Lang from any other Chinese poet is his sharp and uncompromising reflection and challenge in his poetry toward the comprehensive state of human civilization, especially modern urban civilization. What makes Meng Lang one of the few important contemporary Chinese poets is his presentation and insight into the complexity and paradox of the real world and the individual self. On one hand, Meng Lang's poetry retains the inherent cultural metaphors of the "Misty Poetry" movement; on the other hand, it deconstructs the naked and monotonous totalitarian discourse of a purely political tendency in a "post-misty" way. Meanwhile, his breathtaking rewriting of the mainstream context has, in an aesthetic subversion and rebirth, reconstructed a personal paradigm for the historical writing of grand discourse.
Poets are rare, scarce, two galloping horses on Nanjing Road. Meng Lang's poetry has always presented a certain fervent surreal style. This style is rooted in an uncompromising spirit; neither to the world, nor to oneself, nor to nothingness. Yet this in no way, seemingly, affects its innate quality of soaring. Meng Lang's kind of flight has nothing to do with elegance, but triumphs with grandeur, sharpness, and variety. — Tang Xiaodu (Critic, Senior Editor / Beijing)
For years, Meng Lang has proven himself a pure and self-respecting lyric poet through his restraint, austerity, and perseverance, maintaining silence and low profile while persisting in engaging with and taking responsibility for major issues. He is also a modernist who has remained steadfast, adhering to all the virtues and dedication of modernist poetry. — Huang Canran (Poet, Translator / Hong Kong)
Meng Lang is the of poetry, an eternal long-distance runner, which is why it is said, "A hundred years have already passed, but he still cannot reach the peak, in despair." — Ye Hui (Poet, Senior Media Professional / Hong Kong)
For over two decades, Meng Lang's poetry has revealed a scholar's yearning to redeem the entire world. In the chronicle of modern Chinese poetry, Meng Lang's sensibility appears sharper, more ethereal, and more incisive. His poetic needles are finer, sharper, and closer to darkness and blood. Meng Lang has created a unique abstract, progressive, and ever-intensifying linguistic sensibility, with which he pierces through the pain of humanity. — Xu Jingya (Poet, Critic / Shenzhen)
In the 1980s, Meng Lang influenced an entire era of poetry with his convincing writing and productive poetry promotion activities. In the 1990s, his works 《》 and 《》 were published one after another, radiating inherent brightness, heat, and radiance, achieving true, meaningful returns. — Liu Manliu (Poet, Writer / Shanghai)
Meng Lang's works mark a rare anomaly in contemporary Chinese poetry with their fierce, untamed shifts in imagery and vertical, sharp rhythmic style. What distinguishes Meng Lang from any other Chinese poet is his sharp and uncompromising reflection and challenge in his poetry toward the comprehensive state of human civilization, especially modern urban civilization. What makes Meng Lang one of the few important contemporary Chinese poets is his presentation and insight into the complexity and paradox of the real world and the individual self. On one hand, Meng Lang's poetry retains the inherent cultural metaphors of the "Misty Poetry" movement; on the other hand, it deconstructs the naked and monotonous totalitarian discourse of a purely political tendency in a "post-misty" way. Meanwhile, his breathtaking rewriting of the mainstream context has, in an aesthetic subversion and rebirth, reconstructed a personal paradigm for the historical writing of grand discourse.