"Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand" Author: Yu Xiuhua Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: New Classics Amber

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In Yu Xiuhua's poems, body and soul, ego and the world, moment and eternity, philosophy and emotion are mixed together with explosive intensity, making you give up distinguishing and float in the torrent of her poems regardless of anything.

——Scholar Luo Xin

Yu Xiuhua's poems are like people, and people are like poems, just like every plant growing in the mountains. They grow freely, and every sentence is the ups and downs of fate. Sometimes they are like thorny flowers, alive and true to their nature; sometimes they are like plump fruits, bowing their heads and knowing themselves.

——Musician Cheng Bi

I like Yu Xiuhua's poems, which are organic poems that grow out of the land. "Write poems in the clouds and live in the mud" is a sentence I draw inspiration from.

——Singer Li Jian

Every time I go abroad to study or work, I always bring a book by Yu Xiuhua. In my busy but lonely life, I use poetry to remind myself that this world has both pain and beauty.

——Zhan Qingyun

Her poems are far more thrilling, brighter, and crueler than she and her life. In her poems, I feel at ease that I am just like her, "just living patiently, unhealthy and unhappy." For me, this kind of company is invaluable. I guess she knows that this is the meaning of her writing poems.

——Host Chen Luyu

I like Yu Xiuhua's poems, which are organic poems that grow out of the land. "Write poems in the clouds and live in the mud" is a sentence I draw inspiration from.

——Singer Li Jian

Yu Xiuhua is a very essential poet. Her poems show that she has a valuable and simple understanding of many things in the world. There is a rare resistance to poetic discipline in her poetry writing. She is very sensitive to the current poetic trends, and is consciously alert to their attraction to herself. Most importantly, she writes very simply, and there is a rough and vigorous sensibility hidden in her words. I think this is rare.

——Zang Di, poet and Peking University professor

In an age of affectation, sincerity has become a scarce resource. In this sense, Yu Xiuhua's poems are like the sound of nature.

——Scholar Yu Guoming

Yu Xiuhua's poetry appeals to the mysterious and irrational logic of poetry itself, which is wonderful in its own way. Eloquent poetry has always been highly praised by contemporary Chinese poetry, but Yu Xiuhua's poetry abandons debate, self-justification, and even conclusions, so it does not form an aggressive relationship with readers.

——Liao Weitang

I think Yu Xiuhua is the Emily Dickinson of China, with extraordinary imagination and striking power of language. Compared with most Chinese female poets, Yu Xiuhua's poetry is pure poetry, the poetry of life, not a written feast or family dinner full of decorations, but a meteor shower of language, so brilliant that you are stunned, and the depth of emotion hits you and makes your heart ache.

——Scholar and poet Shen Rui

Her poems, placed among those of Chinese female poets, stand out like placing a murderer among a group of ladies from noble families - the others are all neatly dressed, wearing makeup and perfume, with words written in black and white, without a trace of sweat, but hers are covered in smoke and dirt, with obvious blood stains between each word.

——Liu Nian, editor of Poetry Magazine

◎ Editor's Recommendation

★Sincerely recommended by actress Joan Chen, scholar Luo Xin, musicians Zhou Yunpeng and Cheng Bi, "U Can U Bi" debater Zhan Qingyun, and self-media personality Rebecca.

★The hardcover collector's edition of the poetry collection "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand" brings together Yu Xiuhua's classic poems from more than 20 years of poetry creation, and specially includes representative recent works.

★Yu Xiuhua's poems have aroused widespread social attention and are deeply sought after and loved by readers from all walks of life.

Poetry has nothing to do with identity or social circle. The poet has infused the power of life into her poems, which is irresistible and has aroused the emotional resonance of the public. This time, many people from all walks of life who like Yu Xiuhua's works were invited to read her poems.

Readers include: scholars Yu Guoming, Luo Xin, Li Songwei; writers Zhou Guoping, Guo Hong, Han Songluo, Ning Yuan, Fei Duo, You Lin, Ma Ning, Chen Tong; hosts Chen Luyu, Luo Xin, Zhang Dandan, Xu Man, Xiao Ma Ge; musicians Yao Qian, Zhou Yunpeng, Xiao He, Zhong Lifeng, Ma Di, Xu Fei, Cheng Bi, Landlord's Cat; fashion and entertainment circles Rebecca, Huang Jue, Mai Zi; Zhan Qingyun, Pang Ying, Chi Zi; and artists Guo Pei, Yan Ming, Han Zhan Ning, Gao Yiqiang, Li Yugang.

★Yu Xiuhua’s poetry style is warm and bold, conveying a strong and sincere life force.

In Yu Xiuhua's poems, the body and the soul, the ego and the world, the moment and eternity, philosophy and emotion are mixed together with explosive intensity, making you give up distinguishing and float in the torrent of her poems regardless of anything. ——Luo Xin

★Includes full-color pictures, reproducing the poet’s former living scenes and creative environment. These precious pictures can no longer be seen today.

The 15 full-color pictures present the rural scenes described in Yu Xiuhua's poems day after day, as well as the daily images that ignited her rich imagination. Today, the lotus ponds, hills, fields, wheat fields, old houses, etc. in the pictures, which are the scenes described by Yu Xiuhua, have disappeared with the progress of the new rural construction.

◎ Introduction

This book is a new hardcover edition of Yu Xiuhua's first poetry collection "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand". "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand" won the favor of many readers after its publication in 2015. This phenomenal sales has triggered a small wave in the field of poetry. This hardcover edition includes more than 140 works of the poet, including more than ten new works, and full-color pictures recording the poet's life and creative environment.

The poems in the book present the poet's feelings about love, family affection, and day-to-day life. They carry the simple atmosphere of the village and the land, mixed with the rich and sensitive emotional nerves of women. If you read Yu Xiuhua's poems with curiosity, you will be swept away by the unrestrained, rich, and pure inner world shown in her poems, and you will be unable to resist. In reality, she is labeled as a "peasant woman", "poet", and "cerebral palsy patient", but in poetry, she can put these aside and pour out her yearning for freedom and her desire for love. As she said, "What is poetry? I don't know, and I can't say it. It's just that emotions are jumping or sinking. It's just that when the soul calls, it comes in the posture of a child, but when a person staggers in the staggering world, it acts as a crutch."

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