Even in Hong Kong bookstores, Yu Xia's books are very rare. It was not until last year that I got a ventriloquism on behalf of a caring friend. This is her second collection of poems, published by Taiwan Province Modern Poetry Quarterly, the first edition in March 199 1, the second edition in March 1997, and the sixth edition in June 2005. Like the first book of poetry, Memo, she designed the cover and layout herself.
The early poems, represented by Memo, are about the sadness of life and feelings about the world, and there is a kind of coldness that cuts into the essence: love is like a "pulled out/painful" tooth decay; The acne on the face is "shorter than epiphyllum/longer than love" and "tired of lyric way after lyric"; "Sweet Revenge", drink after pickling and drying your lover; Correcting students' composition "The great wheel of the times keeps turning" in a small town; "Poetry is too extravagant/and/or a little boring" Poet's Day ...
In the later works since ventriloquism, there are fewer epigrams and more excavations on the core and extension of the text; In my opinion, she really changed from modernism to postmodernism, with less sharpness and more detached black humor. I also like these smiling ventriloquism with deep sigh and ridicule: some couples dance, some die slowly and sweetly, our troubled circus ("You will die of nothingness eventually/but play the piano so slowly"), and chorus against the wind ("Between sadness and nothingness/I choose thyme and lavender").