Nine Poetic Hearts

🏆 Douban's 2025 Book of the Year NO.1🏆
▲ Nine poets, nine illuminating literary lessons
▲ When the times are chaotic and life is no longer stable, they find nine ways to stabilize their lives
▲ Delicate writing, female perspective, revealing the "other side" of poets
▲ Highly recommended by Ye Jiaying and Qian Liqun; Wenjin Book Award nominee; One-Way Street Bookstore Literary Award; "Xin Zhou Kan" Dagger Good Book; "Dedao" Book of the Year
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【Content Introduction】
Can ancient poetry still respond to the current changes of the times and life situations? Perhaps this book offers an answer.
This book was written during the pandemic. The author did not choose the more well-known poets, but honestly, starting from her own life and contemporary confusions, selected poets who could respond to these questions (Qu Yuan, Li Ling, Cao Pi, Tao Yuanming, Du Fu, Ouyang Xiu, Li Qingzhao, Wen Tianxiang, Wu Meicun). They were all in the throes of historical change, all facing a proposition: when the promise of a once stable world fails, how should one live one's life?
Through their writings, we see how people, amidst great historical turmoil, transform life's pain and achieve individual composure; how they find happiness when hope is nowhere to be seen; and what answers they can offer to the fundamental conditions of human existence.
Author Huang Xiaodan, with the sensitivity of a female scholar, uncovers the unknown side of poets; with poetic prose, she offers close readings, helping readers overcome the barrier of ancient language; with solid textual collation and mutual verification of history and literature, she recreates the historical scenes of the poets' spiritual conflicts with reality, making this book a Chinese equivalent of "Stars Shine in Human History."
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【Expert Recommendations】
The ancients said, "There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart; a dead body is secondary." It is very important to keep the heart from dying. When you see the cultivation, temperament, breadth of mind, and aspirations revealed by the ancients in their poetry, when you see how they lived through worries and hardships, these will also help you to live through worries and hardships.
——Ye Jiaying
The arrival of the post-pandemic era has posed unprecedented challenges to the humanities, and at the same time, new general expectations for literary reading have quietly arrived. Thus, questions arise: In the post-pandemic era, what is literature, and what is its purpose? "Nine Poetic Hearts" answers such questions. It starts from empathy for the human condition, reaches the existential dimension, and demonstrates how it is possible for people to maintain the stability of individual life and achieve a spiritual abundance and composure amidst great changes and turmoil.
——Qian Liqun

2024-11-01

上海三联书店

Ideal Country

436

9787542687050