Be a little poet in the mountains of Northeast China, Yunnan and Shaanxi. Whenever I watch the snow falling all over the sky in early winter, when I open the window in the dark and look at my hometown and the afterlife, I can still hear the gentle rustling in the most lonely place in the world.
If China's contemporary poetry must be named as the "source", Li Yawei should be a temporary choice ... He tore and ravaged the China tradition formed over thousands of years, and he dreamed with cautious love-this talent is innate and has not awakened.
Zhang Xiaobo
The happiness brought by Li Yawei's poems does not mean giving up the relaxed feeling of spiritual climbing, nor is it the cheap humor of life; Not to mention using a few words with cheerful effect in poetry. It refers to the poet's poetic speech in a relatively complete natural state. For Li Yawei, language is not the result of his study and thinking as an "intellectual", but a gift, which is the way of his healthy nature.
—— Li Zhen
Just as Ginsburg is "inter-generational", it is undoubtedly the "vulgar" poetry school, especially Li Yawei himself, that can truly reflect the wandering, adventurous and rebellious spirit and practice of the third generation poetry movement. No matter from which point of view, Li Yawei can be called a native poet, which directly inspired Sha Yi and Shen Haobo.
-Li
Among contemporary poets, Li Yawei is probably the one who pays the most attention to history and geography. A profound sense of history enables him to despise his contemporaries and single views. He is willing to narrate from different angles without revealing his literary ambition. Simply repeating the feeling of being cornered can enhance the complexity of poetry. He mocked the utilitarian heart of his contemporaries with clever comments.
-Zhang Wanxin
From Li Yawei's poems, I feel that the so-called "man" has several characteristics: one is wild, and the other is rough. Wild reflection of their own way, unconstrained style, rough reflection of love, arbitrary. I think "man" is not a sign of gender here, but a sign of power, because every man has an attempt to be king in his bones. The king's world is hard work, and hard work always begins with accidents.
-Li