Delicious Relationship – Selected Poems of Hainan

Author: Hai Nan
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The poetics of "delicious relationship," which is the poetics of the ontology of linguistic rhetoric—the language system is taken as the ontology of literature rather than a means, and the presentation of language itself is the purpose. Hai Nan is undoubtedly a genius in the contemporary Chinese literary world. She never uses words selectively or strategically, as many writers do, to "innovate" a literary style with the intention of rebelling against the literature of predecessors (such as so-called "lower body" poetry). Hai Nan never avoids words that carry traditional poetic meaning. To many writers and poets who adopt narrative strategies of anti-lyricism, anti-poetry, and anti-literature, Hai Nan's poetry seems traditional. However, in fact, no one can innovate a new system of symbols beyond the conventional language symbol system. Any creation in linguistic art first breaks through within the existing language symbol system. This book is a poetry collection by the renowned writer Hai Nan, featuring her best poems from 1998 to 2000. Whether in language or content, it offers a fresh and innovative experience.