Editor's Note
In order to vigorously recommend excellent works, China Writers Network specially opened the "No. 10 Conference Room" column, focusing on those new literary works that have received widespread attention or have not been fully valued, inviting young and middle-aged writers and critics to participate in the commentary, collecting special comments, news dynamics, in-depth dialogue, creative paths and other relevant information, reading and discussing with readers, and striving to comprehensively present the charm of the works from a rich perspective. In the tenth issue of june 2022, the "Tenth Conference Room" column of China Writers Network recommended Lu Ye's poetry collection "The Snow Seals the Door" for everyone.
"Big Snow Closed Door" is composed of three series of "Southern Mountains", "East Flow" and "Big Snow Sealed Door", this is the poet who has been wandering around for many years, for the first time to fix his eyes on his homeland, she reconstructed the southern part of Jinan with memories and language, located in the "Southern Mountains" of Taishan, she met "Wild Flowers", "Wild Chrysanthemums", "Wild Vegetables", "Wild Fruits", "Wild Springs", "Wild Grapes", "Wild Cotton", paying tribute to these wild "useless things", in the nature and things familiar with childhood, the middle-aged poet returns to his own, A new realm of independence.
(Moderator of this issue: Deng Jiefeng)
Lu Ye is a professor at the College of Letters of the University of Jinan. Now he is mainly engaged in the creation of poetry and prose, as well as creative writing, the comparison of Chinese and Western poetry, editing and publishing, and other directions. He is the author of nearly 30 kinds of books such as poetry collections, prose collections, short story collections, long novels, and review collections. Recently, the main collections of poems published include "Under the Sky" and "The Snow Seals the Door", and the main collection of essays and essays includes "Airplane Pulling Thread" and "Unfinished Youth". He has won the People's Literature Award.
Author: Lu Ye
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
Online: 2021-11
Price: RMB 65.00
Synopsis
"The Snow Seals the Door" is a collection of poems created by the contemporary female poet Lu Ye to roam the land of Qilu, containing a total of 117 poems, including 4 long poems. In this collection of poems, half of the works are poems about the "southern mountains" where the poet grew up, and the other half deal with the sea and daily experience of the Jiaodong Peninsula.
With the posture of continuous walking, starting from the abundant female life experience, the poet pays great attention to the hometown, nature, and wilderness, like a naturalist, and devotes himself to depicting every grass and stone on the northern land, gaining a more open and solid individual strength in wandering and walking, and showing it in the poetry line. Among them, 4 long poems with biographical meaning, in addition to retaining the poet's unchanging flying and open poetic style, also reveal the depth and dignity of a mature poet.
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Lu Ye's poetry collection "The Snow Closes the Door" Reading: The Individual Invention of Place and Nature | He Yanhong
In Lu Ye's "Nanshan Poems", whether it is to write about her walking and wandering in the mountains ("Summer", "Duty", "Entering the Mountain", "Reason", "Hiking", "Walking on the Mountain Road"), or writing about the people she saw in the mountains ("The Laundry Man", "The Old Woman Who Sold Walnuts", "The Persimmon Cake Maker") and things ("Hand Tractor", "Mountain Stall", "Mountain Grave", "Dam") and local historical relics ("Yellow Mud Hut", "Late Autumn, Qi Great Wall", "To the Gushang"), or more about the nature of the mountain, highlighted, Both are a unique female subject. This subject, as written in several other poems in his poetry collection, is "the eternal recipe for those who have just fallen in love with each other for many years" ("The Book of The Stairs"), "Lost Love / Left Alone, More and More Lonely" ("Prairie"). As her life entered middle age, she even enjoyed such "solitude" and such "loneliness", and was fortunate that her "middle age is so vast, and there is no need to be gregarious" ("Spring Pond").
Lu Ye's poetry collection "The Snow Closes the Door" Reading: The Messenger Who Came to Himself | Huo Junming
The southern mountains of Jinan mean something extraordinary to Lu, as it is also her birthplace, "Please leave me out of the crowd, please leave me alone / With my childhood" (Southern Mountains). Flat, towering or ravines and scattered fragments of time in the mountains include her childhood, the cemetery of her maternal grandfather and grandmother, the hospital where she was born, the dilapidated Taoist temple where she once lived briefly, the primary school she attended, the reservoir where she fished, the supply and marketing agency where she bought colorful plastic head ropes... Here is Lu Ye's spiritual birthmark, so the poet's "return" in "middle age" after many years has an extremely strong fate color and allegorical effect, and the mountains, grasses, ruins, and ruins here also point to the projection of memory and the changes of the times. Today, the mountains are still stretched out, but the trajectory of human changes and destinies has almost gradually been smoothed out. In this way, "memory" as the greatest function of poetry is activated again and again, so that the poet seems to be both unfortunate and lucky.
Commentary on the road also poetry collection "The Snow Closes the Door": middle-aged writing, homeland reconstruction, and self-questioning | Wu Mingchun
Lu Ye's occasional percussion of the "void" proposition is one of the manifestations of the poet's self-consciousness and sense of history that is carried out in his poetic text. Of course, this kind of percussion is not unfolded in the abstract way of philosophical speculation, but penetrates the poet's rich life experience, deduces it in an imaginary way, and becomes the living flesh and blood of the poetic text. For example, the author wrote in the poem "The Dam": "The thin clouds overhead, the sunlight makes a hissing sound / The foot steps on the abyss and the void / / Alone me accompanies the lone me / Walks gently from the dam", "The dam" is used here as a special situation, reflecting the division and reconciliation of the two selves. The author's narrative language seems to be smooth and calm, but in fact, it implies the huge pressure of "100 million tons of water". This pressure is both physical and psychological. And the poem "Headland" shows us the loneliness and nothingness of the self in a broad background: "Far away to the end of the land / The wind is standing on this headland / A group of barracudas are hearing the news coming to me / A void between the sea and the sky", the smallness of the headland and the fragility of the self form an isomorphic relationship, which contrasts sharply with the vastness of the sea and the sky.
The "independent" poetics of Lu Ye's poetry collection "The Snow Closes the Door" | Cong Xinqiang
The long poem "From Now on" as a "independent" genealogy collection, constructs the "Declaration of Independence" of the poetic spirit of the road and the way. First, the poem lays out many images and their representations, showing fractures rather than healing, moving toward fragments rather than wholes, entering the edge rather than the center, adhering to the self rather than the public, and returning to the original rather than the effect. Peninsula drift, detached from the dependence of the continent; The years are quiet and will explode at any time; Loosen the so-called embrace, retreat the absurd wait, interrupt unforgettable memories, return to the meridian of time; The same land is divided, the same sky is gradually separated, and you and I are not in the same universe; Take imperfection as a complete posture, retreat as a forward posture, slow down as a posture of acceleration, abandonment as a posture of acquisition, and love as an individual posture; Only solo singing is true singing, only solo dancing is real dance, only independence is true standing; The road collapses, leaving no way back; The wind blows the past, leaving no trace; Between you and me, society is out of touch; The so-called life has neither a terminal nor a milestone, only the event of coming to the world alone.
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Editor: Liu Ya
Second instance: Wang Yang
Third instance: Chen Tao