"I prefer to read the absurdity of poetry" Author: Liao Weitang Publisher: Beijing Yanshan Publishing House

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💫An introductory course on modern poetry by a senior poet, interpreting contemporary poetry in an easy-to-understand way, defeating the absurdity of everyday life with the absurdity of poetry

Liao Weitang, a senior poet, has published more than ten personal poetry collections, won several literary awards, and is active in the forefront of modern Chinese poetry. At the same time, he is also a professional poetry researcher who is familiar with classical poetry and has a lot of experience in reading and writing modern poetry.

In this book, he uses the dual perspectives of a poet and a researcher, combining the two dimensions of classical poetry and modern poetry, to lead readers to re-understand the relationship between modern poetry and contemporary life, and the aesthetics of their mother tongue, and to reshape the power of poetry.

🌔"We don't have to be poets, but we have to be people with poetry in our hearts" - Use modern poetry to polish our mother tongue and let everyday language shine again

Poetry is the alchemy of everyday language. Modern poets create new languages, revolutionize old discourses, deconstruct solidified language habits, and make our mother tongue shine again, thereby renewing our expressiveness and aesthetics.

Poetry is also the alchemy of daily life. It brings a look of wonder, reveals the magic and richness that the world already has, preserves the precious and eternal things in the ever-changing contemporary life, and polishes the beauty in our hearts, whether fragile or sensitive.

🌟Poetry is a mirror that reflects life; reading poetry helps us resist the harsh reality - Why read poetry? Because poetry is closely connected with our destiny

Is poetry too far from life? Quite the contrary. Poetry is not far away, but right in front of us, right now. Poetry is by no means a romantic escape from reality, nor does the poet abandon or transcend reality. Instead, he reflects reality into poetry in an unavoidable way.

Poetry cannot stop a tank, but poetry has built up far more in our hearts, in the language and spirit of our people than a tank can destroy.

🌊From Celan, Milosz, Auden, to Bei Dao, Zhang Zao, Xia Yu... It is not only 30 poetry lectures, covering all the classics of modern poetry; it is also a unique selection of poetry, where the stars of talented poets shine.

From the legendary poets of the 20th century to the AI ​​that can write poetry in the 21st century; from the ancient eternal dilemma of mankind to the cutting-edge science fiction imagination; from love, marriage, death to the meaning of life... Each chapter starts from the key issues and important perspectives in modern poetry to rebuild the connection between poetry and life, beauty and daily life.

If you are an experienced reader of modern poetry, you can gain a unique new perspective and get to know a series of classic poems and poets in a new way; if you have little exposure to modern poetry, this is an excellent introduction to poetry. Not only can you appreciate the charm of classic poems, but you can also learn how to understand a good poem and find a new relationship between poetry and yourself.

🌕To be a sober modern person, you need to understand modern poetry first - use modern poetry to comfort modern people's homesickness and take back the moon of the 21st century from Li Bai

Poetry exists in ancient and modern times, but it is different in ancient and modern times. For modern people, melancholy is not just about withered vines, old trees and crows, and homesickness is no longer just about "the bright moonlight in front of the bed". Countless new problems in modern life call for new poetic expressions. To understand modern poetry is to understand our current predicament and the light and darkness in our hearts, and to re-examine the unique spiritual realm of modern people.

From Celan's shadow of the Holocaust, to Xia Yu's confusion about marriage, to Borges' transcendental time and space... Different from classical sorrow, each poet is a pioneer of a new human condition. Through these poems, you seem to have entered a bizarre modern museum of the mind, where each fragment reflects the noble and eternal glimmer that belongs only to humans.

💥Derived from the popular audio course "Watch Ideal", it has been re-arranged and carefully polished to be more suitable for paper reading; Liang Wendao, Ma Jiahui, Huang Canran, Luo Yijun, Huang Canran, Zhou Yunpeng, Zhong Lifeng, and Qi Jinnian jointly recommend it

Is modern poetry really difficult to understand? Is modern poetry just prose divided into lines? Are modern poetry and classical poetry incompatible?

From audio programs to paper classrooms; starting from misunderstandings and departing from poetry; poets and poems, neither humble nor overbearing, accompany you in this world full of contradictions and establish a truly equal relationship between poetry and readers.

From the literary, poetry, translation and music circles, a number of cultural celebrities have strongly recommended it.

【Recommended by famous experts】

Brother Liao Weitang is a poet and critic that I like very much. He writes poetry with his left hand and writes criticism with his right hand. They are both equally brilliant. The most important thing is that his understanding of poetry is not limited to modern poetry. He can let everyone know the current situation of all kinds of poetry in China and what kind of lessons some poems in the world poetry world can teach us. On the other hand, he also studies ancient Chinese poetry, so he can give everyone a comprehensive understanding of poetry.

——Leung Man-tao

I once wrote a bunch of poems but never published them. I showed them to Liao Weitang. He didn't say they were good after reading them. I think he felt they were not good. I regret that he waited so long to write this book to teach people to appreciate and read poetry. If I had seen it earlier, I would have written it well and he would have praised it.

——Ma Jiahui

Liao Weitang tells poems, modern poems, and Chinese modern poems in such a fascinating and intoxicating way that he makes these poems come alive again. He talks about cause and effect, about the ultimate truth, and about how the poets of this civilization, whose hearts have been wandering for thousands of years, have wandered in the past hundred years.

———Luo Yijun

Liao Weitang is very familiar with the new poetry from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan since the beginning of modern literature. I think he is the best person to popularize modern poetry.

——Huang Canran

Liao Weitang is a good contemporary Chinese poet whom I love and respect. He writes very good poems and has a profound knowledge of poetry. Listening to him talk about modern poetry, you will definitely be enlightened and understand it.

——Zhou Yunpeng

Reading Wei Tang's books, I also became a person on the road, a sober and free wanderer, finding a rhythm between certainty and uncertainty. However, it is precisely because of its uncertainty that it gave me some enlightenment; and certainty gave me openness and the disappearance of mystery.

——Zhong Lifeng

For anyone who is curious and pursues aesthetics, this book is a very precious gift. It may open up a unique perspective for you, allowing you to look at the beauty of modern poetry in a new way and experience the universality of poetry in life.

——Qiujinnian

【Content Introduction】

"How reality loves, poetry loves above that,

Just as reality is broken, poetry was broken before that.

Poetry is happier than happiness and more miserable than misfortune.

Reading poetry is to confront the absurdity of reality with the absurdity of poetry, and to call upon the eternity of the soul with the eternity of poetry. "

Thirty introductory courses on modern poetry, a journey to polish language. The famous poet Liao Weitang leads readers into the core of modern poetry, deconstructing our daily language habits and presenting the vast and easily overlooked poetic fertile land.

From Celan, Milosz, Auden to Bei Dao, Zhang Zao, Xixi... From the poet's first-hand perspective, we explore the shining stars of modern poetry. Focusing on ten misunderstandings of modern poetry and using twenty modern poetic meanings as footnotes, we have selected more than seventy outstanding poems to rediscover the poetic spirit unique to our time with you.