Draw the sky: The world of Zi You

Author: Zi You
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: "Others let the sky decide their own colors, while I paint the sky with my own colors." The young writer Zi You once moved many readers with his extraordinary talent and his open-minded attitude toward life and death. His vow, "Live beautifully, die beautifully!" left a deep impression on his readers. On April 19, 2005, Zi You wrote the poem "To Hong to Me." In the final section of the poem, Zi You wrote: "Why do I still love the tests / Because others let the sky decide their own colors / I paint the sky with my own colors"--- The newly published poetry collection is titled "Painting the Sky." In the preface, Liu Hong tells the story of her son and his poetry. It is said that "the earliest recorded lines resembling poetry spoken by Zi You were on June 30, 1994, when he was four years old." She named the preface "Zi You is a poem that can never be finished," and she claims that for children, poetry is "the language of the child, the first words he learns. If we don’t disturb him, poetry resides in the child’s heart, and he may continue to recite it forever." "Painting the Sky—The World of Zi You" collects the best articles and poems created by Zi You throughout his life, as well as correspondence between Zi You and others such as Li Ao, Bei Dao, Shao Yanxiang, Chen Luyu, and others. The poet Shao Yanxiang said in his poem "Mourning Zi You," "Eternal Zi You, eternal freedom." Li Ao praised Zi You, saying, "His life was short, but he lived it as himself." "Zi You’s poetry summarizes the spiritual journey he has gone through; it is his dialogue with the world," Liu Hong evaluates her son’s poems. The content included in this book is: "The Lute of Fate," "The Miracle of Two People," "Only for This Moment," "Alright! You Can Go!" "Farewell, Curly Hair," "You Know, My Little Brother," "Our Era," and more.