2002-2003 China Poetry Annual Selection

Author: Wang Guangming, Editor-in-Chief of the China Poetry Research Center
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: A significant adjustment in the expressive perspective of Chinese poetry, it no longer critiques reality merely by imagining or promising a better future, nor does it use "remembering hardship and cherishing sweetness" to justify "reality." Its most important contribution to poetic writing lies in correcting the long-standing misunderstanding of the dominant "realist poetry" regarding the relationship between the subject and the world, language and reality. This opens the way for poetry to connect with personal feelings, consciousness, and imagination, allowing language and reality to engage in consultation, dialogue, and mutual absorption, thereby revealing independent individual character and artistic taste. The poems included in this book are: "Your Alma Mater," "Four Sonnets on Tibetan Spirit Stones," "The Cries of the Oppressed," "Taking a Second Wedding Photo," "The Parrot Speaks," "The Sea," "The Kingfisher," "The Poplar Tree," "Weishan Lake," "On Eagles," "When You Embrace This World Without Kisses," "Now," "The Canal and the Wind Vane," "Tabletop Drama: Indoor Wilderness," "Crossing the Century," "Window Niches," "Fragrant Fragrance," "Friday," "The Ridge Where the Moon Rises," "Daughter," "In the Countryside," "Migrant Workers at the Intersection of Spring and Summer," "Riding a Horse to Distant Places," "Those Acacia and Thorn Trees," "The River in Spring," "Little Sister," "Little Blue Dog," "Subtraction," "The Clock Strikes," "Snow or Butterfly," and more.