"The Skylark Sings All Day" Author: Mu Xin Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

Introduction

"The days of the past have become slower, cars, horses, and mail have all become slower, and a lifetime is only long enough to love one person..."

Mu Xin's poetry collection "Skylarks Sing All Day" is based on the final draft of Mu Xin in his later years. Volume A includes "Big Mood", "Love Poems on the Train", "Nagai Kafu's Japan", "And We Also Had Youth", "Rest in Peace, Enemies", "Zhitang Poetry Records", etc. (especially the original poems of "Slow Times", and Volume B includes haiku collections, and is accompanied by the author's image, creation handwriting, etc. When the poetry collection was first published, Mu Xin was 82 years old.

These more than 100 poems with profound artistic conception and golden sentences, and more than 100 lines of wonderful aphorisms in the style of Mu Xin, are still talked about by readers. In the first volume, the poet traveled through time and space, the Volga River, Sicily, Istanbul, Java, ancient Greece... the exotic customs and Chinese landscapes are vividly portrayed on paper. The second volume is all short sentences, mostly written out of occasional feelings, and colorful. These sentences are like haiku and aphorisms. As Mu Xin said: the collection of haiku has a sense of fireworks.

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Editor's Recommendations

★ Includes "Life Was Slow in the Past", Mu Xin's representative poem full of golden sentences——

"The days used to be slower, cars, horses, and mail were slower, and a lifetime was only enough to love one person; locks used to be beautiful, and keys were exquisite and stylish. When you locked it, people would understand." Mu Xin's poetry collection "Skylarks Sing All Day" is based on Mu Xin's final draft in his later years, and it contains the original poems of "The Past Was Slow", accompanied by the author's image and handwriting. When the collection was first published, Mu Xin was 82 years old. These more than 100 poems with profound artistic conception and golden sentences, and more than 100 lines of Mu Xin's wonderful aphorisms, are still talked about by readers. In the first volume, the poet roamed the Volga River, Sicily, Istanbul, Java, ancient Greece... Exotic people and Chinese landforms are vividly portrayed on paper. The second volume is full of short sentences, most of which are written out of occasional feelings, and are colorful. These sentences are like haiku and aphorisms. As Mu Xin said: The collection of haiku has a sense of fireworks.

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In Frankfurt, Mu Xin wrote, "Flying across the Atlantic, London disappeared, Frankfurt appeared, the crew did not issue any forms, and I felt a little itchy. Landing in an undefended country... The gallery owner, restaurant owner, and cafe foreman all spoke fluent English. Sitting on a wooden bench under a maple tree, drinking slightly sweet cider, and putting fragrant sausage into my mouth... Mu Xin decided to end this collection of poems and haikus here, and titled it "The Skylark Sings All Day Long."

Mu Xin was born in 1927 in Zhejiang, China. He graduated from Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1982, he settled in New York. In 2006, he returned to Wuzhen.