Shang Qin (1930-2010) poet. His original name is Luo Yan, and his pen names include Luo Yan, Roman, Rengui, etc. A native of Gong County, Sichuan.
On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he joined the Kuomintang army with his elder brother who returned home to visit relatives. He once traveled to the southwestern provinces while escaping and fighting. Later he joined the army and went to Taiwan from Yunnan in 1950. The following year he published poems in "Modern Poetry", and in 1956 he joined the modernist camp organized by Ji Xian. Later he joined "Genesis" and became a typical representative of Taiwanese surrealism. In 1962, he wrote a collection of poems "Giraffe". He retired in 1968. After spending more than 20 years in the military, he only achieved the rank of "Sergeant of the Army".
After retiring, he lived a life without a stable life, like a wandering duckweed. He later moved to the lower classes and engaged in various professions. He worked as an editor, a dock worker, a private gardener, ran a gang, and opened a beef noodle restaurant. wait. He once worked as an editor, then moved to the lower classes and engaged in various professions.
In 1969, he went to the International Writing Center of the University of Iowa in the United States for further study and was awarded the title of Honorary Writer. He once served as a jury member of Taiwan's "Modern Poetry Award". Served on the "Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement Committee". Shang Qin was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in a certain year and was shortlisted, but fell short at the last moment. There are too many injustices, too many setbacks, too much pain, and too many tribulations in life, which makes the poet unable to face reality calmly. He can only escape to the artistic conception of surrealist poetry to find solace and use the detachment of poetry. , achieve detachment from reality. Poetry pursues surrealism and does not recognize that literature (especially poetry) has a social mission. His works include "Dreams Become Dawn", "Thinking with Feet: Poems and Sketches", "Dreams or Dawns", "Shang Qin·Selected Poems of the Century", etc. In Shang Qin's "Door or Sky", the lyrical protagonist is like an "unsupervised prisoner". Writing poetry is to repeatedly walk out of a virtual "door", that is, to engage in spiritual escape. The real sense of life makes the seemingly absurd comedy situation actually full of tragic life experience. Surreal imagination is a myth about survival. It uses a psychological state that is divorced from the status quo to pursue high poetry. Shang Qin said, "Looking back, the past years seem to have been spent in imprisonment and escape." The poet experienced humiliation in "imprisonment" and recovered human dignity in "escape", which is to stand on the predicament. Go find a way out. To say that the surreal expression technique is just a play on technique and obliterate the conscience of the poet in his dream is really due to some misunderstanding. If the artistic pursuit of Genesis Poetry Society is "hanging in the air" and the pain of "Chimney" being unable to escape from the predicament is ignored, a fair conclusion will naturally not be drawn. The poet said, "The soil is my mother." Only because of this, he takes transcending the status quo as his cultural spirit. In the surreal art experiments of Shang Qin, Ye Weilian and others, they all actively tended to explore the artistic beauty rules of poetry. They emphasized that in language poetry, perhaps pure poetry can better represent the artistic ideal of Genesis Poetry Society than surrealism. The concept of surreal poetry does not lack the pursuit of pure poetic intention; in particular, the mental state and psychological skills when using image language to write should be the most subtle and profound part of the art of poetry. In this regard, the art of surrealist poetry does have extraordinary strengths. Because independent creative imagination can open up a road to the kingdom of freedom for pure poetry creation, the Genesis Poetry Society chose Surrealism in the early 1960s. It can also be said that there was an accident in it. Generally speaking, the accident lies in the integration with the world poetry world. The necessity of artistic fashion comes from their consistent pursuit of pure poetic intention.
According to Taiwan's "China Times" report, Taiwan's heavyweight poet Shang Qiu has been suffering from Parkinson's disease in recent years and passed away due to aspiration pneumonia in the early morning of the 27th at the age of 80. Shang Qin is known as the pioneer of Taiwanese prose poetry in the 1950s. He is famous for his surrealist style. Although he wrote no more than two hundred poems in his lifetime, his output is very small, but every poem is a classic. His close friend and poet Shaoxian choked up and said: "The life God gave him was too short, but his poems will be passed down. He is the poet who is the most advanced among us and has the best achievements. He is ours." Set an example." According to reports, in May 2009, Yinji Publishing held a book launch party for Shang Qin on his 79th birthday. This was the last time Shang Qin attended a public event. At that time, he was thin and his speech was a little slow, but when he got together with Lin Huaimin, the founder of Yunmin Dance Theatre, poets Chu Ge, Guan Guan, Xin Yu and other friends, he was still very moved. His eyes were bright and he said: "I have never given up. The idea of ??writing poetry.
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