Originally, it was an indisputable fact that poets were marginalized. The poet also recognizes this, and everyone basically writes for the sake of heart, as a companion for life and entertainment.
Therefore, it is not a problem that a poet has written dozens of poems and a thousand poets have written tens of thousands of poems. Most of them are related to poetry, as an interest and a means to know yourself. However, in recent years, the names of poets have always appeared in the public sphere, that is, in the form of entertainment and consumption. Consumption is basically related to his identity or human characteristics. It started with the founder of Pear Blossom, followed by the poet of migrant workers, the poet of Wu style, and the poet of post-90s migrant workers who committed suicide last year. At the end of the year, Yu Xiuhua, a poet with cerebral palsy, was published in Poetry Magazine, which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. In the past half a month, it has exploded in the media and the public, and Yu Xiuhua's family has been surrounded by the media. A farmer and a disabled person are surrounded and consumed in an all-round way, which is beyond anyone's power. Even a dozen rabbits in her family died because of the reporter.
Therefore, for Yu Xiuhua, her poems, whether praising or belittling, are all aimed at making her a passive name. However, the acceleration of this name is her identity as a disabled person-she appeared as a poet with cerebral palsy, and people lamented that a patient with cerebral palsy actually wrote a poem like "I traveled all over China to sleep with you"? This is the nature of human curiosity. If it weren't for cerebral palsy, as a farmer, and the poem "I went all over China to sleep with you" written by her as a farmer with cerebral palsy, it would be difficult for the public to pay attention to Yu Xiuhua.
However, the public always pays attention to those strange titles, such as Tennessee School in Zhao Lihua and Baiyun School in Qing Wu, completely ignoring that they still have many excellent poems. As long as they don't feel like their own poems and can't understand contemporary poems, they will make a big fuss and ridicule and totally deny China's contemporary poems. As a result, the poet has become a negative label of the times. Even if you commit suicide, mental problems are a poet's patent, giving people the impression that only poets are so abnormal and the general public are very good and healthy. At this time, as a poet, I should say a few more words.
First of all, the poet still lives in this world and is still trying to build a poetry empire. Rich or poor, they have never given up this muse kingdom. They have been writing, expressing and looking for that narrow light. In the temple of language, while absorbing the essence of western modernity, it inherits the excellent quality of China's poetic country, finds the bright light corresponding to the soul in poetic language, and realizes the intention of learning from poetry and understanding life. It will be a blessing for poetry if everyone can be patient, truly understand and gain insight into the subtle expression in the depth of poetry language and feel the tremor and shouting brought by modern poetry. If not, please put down your criticism and do your homework first.
Secondly, Yu Xiuhua's poetry is very lucky to be introduced and discovered by the poetry circle, which should be her luck. Because she is really an excellent poet. Those poems that everyone laughed at alone have already amazed the poets. The title of the poem "Sleeping with You Across Half China" is bold, not just unconventional. But as a bold expression of lyric poetry. The whole poem is a free flight of imagination and a collective explosion of language. Here, you can love you or find you, but she gave up ordinary words and boldly entered the target imagination, letting her thoughts and emotions run. The rhythm of expression is thin, the passion is clear and full, the language expression is coherent, the semantics are changeable, and the extension of radiation is so broad and stretched-in fact, sleeping with you is almost the same as sleeping with you, nothing more than the power of collision between two bodies, nothing more than the flower driven by this power/nothing more than the imaginary spring of this flower, which makes us mistakenly think that life has been reopened ... In most of China, everything is happening: volcano. The river dried up/some neglected political prisoners and refugees/elk and red-crowned cranes at gunpoint all the way/I fell asleep in the rain of bullets/I pressed countless nights to sleep at dawn/I came across countless people who slept with you/of course, I was led astray by some butterflies/regarded some praises as spring/regarded a village like Hengdian as my hometown? And they are all indispensable reasons for me to sleep with you.
There are many poems, such as walking through the cemetery, dreaming of snow, going to Lei Pingyang, the secret suddenly dignified, the wheat on the threshing floor, our whereabouts are unknown this night, and there are many poems about rural life, so I won't go into details. I think her poems can enter the ranks of first-class female poets. Its width and depth have its unintentional or intentional height. Although a lot of writing has unconscious expression and imitation, as far as its current achievements are concerned, she must not be regarded as a label.
Finally, I hope the society can accept the identity of a poet normally. Like everyone else, they don't live by poetry. They all have their own careers and lifestyles. They just chose poetry in their hearts and needed it to be a part of their lives. This is the behavior of the personal world and does not harm society and others. Why should we deliberately interpret and comment on poets? If you can, please understand a good poem carefully. If not, please make a detour. The world is flat, and everyone has a trajectory for everyone to walk. That's what happened.