Chapter 58 1997 "Doom"

Genre: Poetry Author: Nishikawa 1. Tribe (excerpt) They worshiped the sky, with poisoned wine and blood Cottonseeds burst out of the ground as they slit their wrists The children took the master's bones and fed them to the dogs Shake the whole plain with cloudy clouds Their young pupils are full of sharp weirdness Leading by the adults, lurking beside the tombstones wet rice in february Fertilize in March, net in June A group of people, showing their bulging abdominal cavities from under the black smoke covered by the earth Spread the sheep's head all over the courtyard, and the blood flows into the dry and cracked wall

Elderly woman, with her baby in her arms, sucks amniotic fluid in October A car, parked at the peak of the mountain A dozen men, pointing their testicles to the ground They sang and roared and broke the flags Facing the scorching sun rising in the east with my butt Use a secret ceremony to send children to school Bloody eyes, staring at the teacher's steps In just ten years, they are as old as eagles The stinking saliva soaks every plain and tile Ladies hold umbrellas and put dogs in their crotches Soak the river with Baiye rouge A government official is taking a bath, and a literary youth is singing

All steel inserts in authority Everyone, broke a few big teeth in one video And my cousin with blue glasses and tattoos My mother, time and time again, sent beef into his roaring stomach There are only a few houses in the countryside, secret and bleak There was an old man who stopped at the riverbed. The head is deeply covered by the tree A truck, driving whitely towards the city hall sharp voice And all the dogs are not barking, everyone is subconsciously sleeping Twenty years later, these people began to knock nails on calligraphy and paintings Sprinkle the apples with salt.their children

In a football match, kicked and broke a right leg of Yugoslavia The school continues to hold ceremonies The mayor put a badge on the door beam There are many people, gathering in the dark night, fireworks There are a few cops, bought a few pairs of white gloves in the morning The long poem "Bad Luck" conducts an in-depth dissection of human's humble fate.People are thrown into fate but have no choice but to be dragged away by fate.Xi Chuan mainly uses irony in this poem, narrating the daily life of various unidentified "hes", showing that people do not naturally have human dignity, and showing the sacrifices that people have to pay to become a "person" cost.Xi Chuan reveals a history of failure in personal life, how it was disintegrated and damaged by an invisible historical fate.Few people have been thinking deeply about the fate of people in the present age like him, and are concerned about the value that our life is losing. His writing is not only a kind of despair, but also a kind of rejection and persistence.

About the author: Xi Chuan, poet, essayist and essayist, whose real name is Liu Jun, was born in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province in 1963.He began to write poetry in college, and joined the national poetry movement at that time, advocating the spirit of intellectuals in poetry writing. He graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985.Visiting scholar at the University of Iowa in 2002.Currently teaching at the School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.Xi Chuan has devoted himself to the national youth poetry movement since the 1980s.He and his friends founded the folk poetry publication Tendency (1988-1991), and participated in the editing of the folk poetry publication Modern Chinese Poetry.His creation and poetic philosophy have a wide influence in contemporary Chinese poetry circles.Published a collection of poems "Fictitious Family Tree" (1997), "The Rough Idea" (1997), (1999), a collection of poems and essays "Deep and Shallow" (2006), a collection of essays "Water Stains" (2001), "Wandering and Chatting: A China People’s Journey to India” (2004), collection of essays “Let the Masked Man Speak” (1997), commented on “Introduction to Foreign Literary Masterpieces. Poetry Volume” (2001), and translated “Borges’ Eighty "(2004), "Milosz Dictionary" (co-translation with Beta, 2004).He has compiled Haizi's Poems (1995) and Haizi's Complete Poems (1997).He has won the Lu Xun Literature Prize (2001), the Zhuang Zhongwen Literature Prize (2003), the UNESCO Achberg Fellowship (1997), and the top ten winners of the Weimar Global Paper Competition in Germany (1999).

Participated in the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival in the Netherlands (1995), the Waldemagne International Poetry Festival in Paris, France (1997), the Chicago Humanities and Art Festival in the United States (2002), and the Berlin International Literature Festival in Germany (2004).His long poem "A Long Journey" was once composed by Guo Wenjing as an orchestral work. In October 2004, it was premiered by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in the Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall. The conductor: Edode Waart (Netherlands).His series of poems "Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water" was adapted into an experimental drama, directed by Meng Jinghui, produced by the National Theater of China in May 2006, and performed at the Oriental Pioneer Theater in Beijing.In addition, Xi Chuan also participated in the filming of the film "Platform" directed by Jia Zhangke in 2000.

Published a collection of poems "Rose of China" (1991).Translations include the works of Pound, Borges, Baxter and others.He has won the "October" Literature Award (1988), the "Shanghai Literature" Award (1992), the "People's Literature" Award (1994), the Modern Chinese Poetry Award (1994), etc. In 1995, he was invited to participate in the 26th Rotterdam International Poetry Festival in the Netherlands. In 1996, he visited Saskatoon, Tujana and Calgary as a guest of the "Foreign Artists Visiting Program" of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Some of his works have been rated as English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and other languages.