Poet Profile
Li Yiliang (1966- ) is a poet and translator. Born in rural Hubei, he now lives in Wuhan and works for a telecommunications company. In 1984, he began to publish poetry works, which were scattered in various related journals, and collected and published a collection of poems "Retrograde". In his spare time, he is engaged in the translation of European and American literature, and has published "Endless: Selected Poems of Zagajewski", "The Eternal Enemy", "The Invisible Hand", "Selected Poems of Hikmet", "Another Beauty", "A Year of the Hunter", etc.
1. In what year did you start writing poetry? What first inspired you to write poetry?
From what year? I can't remember it very well, because my initial crush was **, reading and writing. The deepest impression was reading "Song of Youth", which quoted one of Heine's poems (there was also his "Silesian Textile Worker" in the Chinese textbook at that time), and the emotions and feelings in it caught my attention, so I played with it again and again until I could recite it, and I also had a copy of Heine's "New Poems" at home, so I also read it, imitating and writing lines, which should not be regarded as writing, but the impulse to imitate is innocent. It was the spring of 1979. At that time, "Tiananmen Poems" had a great influence, and I also had a copy at home, and after reading it, I realized that poetry should have rhythm, rhyme, and passion, and there was nothing else to learn. Another thing that impressed me was that I read the poem "The General Can't Do This" from the "Poetry Magazine" (which was a small book at that time) at my uncle's house, and I felt that it was so boldly written, and the arrangement of the staircase was also very novel. My interest was mainly in **reading, which was popular in the period** to catch which to read. It was an era when reading resources were very scarce, and there was no cultural life. As a lonely teenager in the township who is unwilling to be lonely, he doesn't even know that he is what he is now called a "literary youth". Two years later, I entered the county seat to study in high school, and the pressure of the college entrance examination squeezed the reading time, if it wasn't for the serious deviation from class (in fact, I didn't realize it), I should have done the question. However, at that time, love happened, and my enthusiasm after class was to study Ai Qing's "Selected Poems", and Jiang Guangci's "Mourning China", and even hand-copied most of the "Flying Birds" (because there was no complete book). When it comes to the inspiration for writing poetry, the answer is already obvious: reading and falling in love.
In 2008, he participated in the Wenchuan ** fundraising activity and read his own poems.
2. Please choose 2-3 ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poets or artists who have the most influence on your poetry creation.
Looking at this rationally now, the first one, I still think it should be the North Island. Before he went abroad, I read and copied his poems in my notebook repeatedly, and most of them could be memorized, and I also did serious research on poetry, figuring them out one by one, and I was so impressed that I was so impressed that I was about 1989. During this period, there were two other poets, Baudelaire and Whitman, who enjoyed similar "treatment", but only by reading, and all kinds of translations and various versions, as long as they could get their hands on them, they would definitely read them carefully. They were all poets who played a huge role in the formation of my conception of poetry, and they helped me define what "poetry" is and what "poetry" should look like. Of course, with the gradual opening of the horizon, this definition has been infinitely enlarged, the degree of freedom has become greater and larger, and the judgment has become more and more necessary to "specific analysis of specific problems".
In 2018, he participated in the Luzhou Poetry and Wine International Week to read poetry.
3. Please provide the titles of your 10 masterpieces since you wrote them.
A Room of One's Own", "The Distance from an American Poet", "Walking", "A Child", "If I'm Old", "Retrograde", "Quatrain", "I Don't Know......"I have" and "resume".
In Chengmai, Hainan, I took a group photo with Mr. Wu Sijing.
4. Do you write poems with a wave, or do you revise them repeatedly, or do you have other ways to write?
There are both methods, and there were more waves in the past, and now there are more repeated revisions.
5. How do you see the relationship between your life and career and your poetry writing?
Profession is a part of life, and profession has nothing to do with my poetry writing. Life is everywhere, life includes poetry, and the ideal state of poetry seems to be able to deal with everything in life, but it does not mean that as long as the lines are poetry, there is a difference. Poetry has always been a very important part of my life, but it has never been the only one.
1. It's never all. I don't really look down on people who make poetry the "only", and I haven't found anyone who does this, poetry can be so good.
Rest on the couch at home.
6. Do you pay attention to the ** chapter of poetry commentary? Do you write poetry reviews, reviews, and research articles?
I have always been concerned about poetry criticism, especially poetry theory, poet research, and poets' self-descriptions, and I have also written some articles in this area, but not much, mainly in response to the situation. I didn't become a theorist or a critic, but I was interested in theory and commentary, which was driven by my "will to seek truth".
7. How do you evaluate the current Chinese poetry scene?
At best, it's normal, normal. It's all the same, China and the United States, the United States and Poland, Poland and Israel. Poetry is increasingly becoming a niche art. In a bad direction, we are now more serious in the "four modernizations": the situation is more serious: the situation is Jianghu, the communication circle, the aesthetic temperament, and the homogenization of writing. Everyone hates the circles of the rivers and lakes, and no one can stay out of it; Everyone is disgusted with the buddy spirit in poetry, and no one is exempt from buddy spirit; Everyone advocates difference, individuality, and originality, and no one can escape the trap of homogeneity. In the final analysis, the motivation for writing cannot be said to be very pure, the vision and experience of writing are still very limited, and there is still a market for following the trend and quick success. Independent poets are rare, and true poets are rare. Poets live in time, and time invisibly eliminates and selects poets.
Read poetry aloud at Wuhan University of Technology.
8. Write down the three elements of poetry writing that you think are most important.
First of all, it is the "temperament" of the writer, which is called temperament and true temperament in the words of our ancients, which is the most basic and the most important; Without this, as the saying goes, "it's not that material", it's the same as dancing is not that material, and singing is not that material. The poet's temperament is not a matter of so-called extroversion or introversion, but whether he has the decisive and distinctive characteristics of thoroughness, frankness, and non-kitsch, and lacks true temperament, at most he can become a good craftsman. Secondly, there is the so-called talent, including sensitivity (which can also be said to be a part of temperament), language ability, and artistic expression, which has an innate component, but mainly depends on acquisition. Talent, talent, talent, Zhuge Liang is so smart people also say: "Only then must you learn." Geniuses cannot be said to be absent, but they are extremely rare. Third, I think it is the vision, including experience, life experience, and writing resources in all aspects, which basically define the pattern of a writer. "The law is above it, and it is in it", what is the law? If we understand the object, content, and scope of the "Fa" more broadly, it is experience, life experience, and various writing resources. From poem to poem, most of them are "second-hand", which may make people become a little expert in technology, and after all, they can't stand the scrubbing of time; What makes a poet is still blood, real material, and nothing is empty.
People who read a lot can have a lot of temperament