"Young Man, Please Be Patient" Author: Velvet Meteorite Publisher: Wuhan University Press

On March 8, 2017, a poem titled "Young Man, Please Bear With Me" was recommended by Cai Tou for reading and quickly spread on the Internet. In a short period of time, it had hundreds of thousands of readers. This poem, with its dense and bizarre images and honest and rich emotions, tells the secret life that a generation has experienced together but no one really tells. However, the power of Velvet Meteor is far more than that. In this collection of poems with the same name, memories, emotions, and experiences extend to a wider space and time and a more complex dimension. More than a hundred poems shape the image of a contemporary young man with a steady rhythm. His moments of growth, confusion, and melancholy are so similar to each of us, but when you go deep into his heart, you find that everything seems mysterious and difficult to understand. There are many people who write poems, but few can express themselves while constructing the image of the times and making it widely circulated. Velvet Meteor has done it.

"Young Man, Please Be Patient" is the first officially published collection of selected poems by the poet Velvet Meteorite, which includes more than 100 poems created from 2012 to 2018, and specially includes 20 photographs by the author. The collection is divided into four volumes, each with its own main line. The poems are like storyboards, forming a magnificent and sensitive author's film in a montage way.

【Comment】

Poetry has always existed, but the mood to read poetry is rare. Yesterday, I came across a poem called "Young Man, Please Bear With Me" by chance. After reading it, I couldn't help but read it again, and suddenly I felt like reading poetry. This is a poem for people who are wandering in the city, just right and appropriate.

——He Cai Tou

Velvet Meteor's poems are the most densely packed with images in modern Chinese poetry, so dense that water can't even get in. The relationship between images can no longer be described as jumping, and most of the images are accidental. And the appearance of a group of images in the same poem seems to be purely accidental. Velvet Meteor does not present inevitability.

And his writing never loses its character because of the accidental explosion. Velvet Meteor's poems are always easy to recognize, and readers can completely ignore the accidental explosion and still recognize them at a glance, through the syntax, word formation and atmosphere of his poems. It can be said that there is something called the "Velvet Meteor System". As long as there is a small trigger point as raw material, the "Velvet Meteor System" can be activated and produce finished products, and they all say "Made by Velvet Meteor".

——Kun

Velvet Meteor has the ability to receive information from the world while processing it in his subconscious mind, turning it into a variety of dishes whose ingredients are hard to tell. It's like he lives in a city, and in his heart he 3D prints another city like the one in the picture book, and sometimes he himself can't tell, as if he has walked into the city in his heart and never comes back. Therefore, whether you read it online or open his printed poetry collection, you will see a colorful and immoral fantasy world, and the exquisite and awkward words create a gloomy atmosphere in a minor key. If you can find the key to decipher in the things he repeatedly appears, you will find that what he writes is not all imagination, but even reality.

——Zhang Hang

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