*The Selected Poems of Richard Brautigan* by Richard Brautigan, published by Guangxi Normal University Press

★ Planned by Federal Horse ★

"Beat Generation" famous marginal figure, one of the American writers "read repeatedly throughout his life" by Haruki Murakami - Richard Brautigan's ★ astounding poetic work.

Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest": "When we are all forgotten, people will still be reading Brautigan."

☀ Brautigan, a well-known marginal figure of the "Beat Generation", a representative of the "counterculture movement" among writers, and a literary idol of 1960s America.

☀ Brautigan is one of the American writers "read repeatedly throughout his life" by Haruki Murakami; Murakami's debut novel "Hear the Wind Sing" is believed to be influenced by him.

☀ Brautigan's poetry is easy to understand yet jumpy and neurotic, with exquisite and novel metaphors related to "modern life"; his poems are influenced by Japanese haiku and Hemingway's minimalist style, containing a large number of concise and powerful "spoken poems".

☀ Poets Xiao Shui and Chen Xi meticulously translated, receiving affirmation from poet and scholar Yang Xiaobin - "perfectly capturing the poetic essence of Brautigan's poetry."

☀ Designed by emerging designer Shao Nian, the binding is like a poetic experiment, super bright and light, with hand-torn edges on the spine (each different), and the inner pages include 4 colors of paper: yellow, blue, red, and green. It uses a "thread-sewn + perfect bound" binding method, making it soft and easy to turn. The font and layout are specially designed, with page numbers consistently on the left, creating a special poetic space.

◉ Content Introduction

This book collects more than ninety representative poems by American poet Brautigan, including "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace," "The Return of the River," and "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mining Disaster."

Brautigan is known for using humor and emotion to drive visual imagination. His poetry is easy to understand yet strangely jumpy and neurotic, often containing exquisite metaphors within concise words. Because his poems are short and exquisite, with a haiku-like flavor, he is also known as "America's Matsuo Bashō" and holds a unique position in American poetry history.

Brautigan's writing centers on the "poetic" unfolding, integrating poetry, prose, and fiction into something new that can be called "Brautigan style." This style attempts to first make poetry prosaic, then make novels "prosaic and poetic," and then make poetry novelistic.

This "Selected Poems of Brautigan" is a concentrated expression of the "Brautigan style" in poetry.

◉ Editor's Recommendation

● Unique imagery + novel metaphors, can be called "mind-blowing":

Countless light-years

pile up in your hair.

— "A February Midday Celestial Dance"

This light

pours itself over me

through a small hole

in the sky.

— "Star Hole"

● Easy to understand + "in sync with modern life":

It's great

to wake up in the morning

alone

and not have to say

I love you

when you no longer do.

— "Love Poem"

● Seemingly "lacking in content," yet creates poetic meaning through spatial sense:

1

Get enough food to eat,

and then eat it.

2

Find a quiet place to sleep,

and then sleep there.

3

Reduce intellectual activity and emotional noise,

until you reach your silent self,

and then listen to it.

4

— "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4"