Moonlight falls on the left hand

◎ Recommended by celebrities: 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 and sink in the torrent of her poems regardless of anything.
—Scholar Luo Xin Yu Xiuhua's poems are like people, and people are like poems, like every plant growing in the mountains. They grow unrestrained, each sentence a twist and turn of fate. Sometimes they are like thorny flowers, alive and true to nature; sometimes they are like plump fruits, bowed and self-aware.
—Musician Cheng Bi I love Yu Xiuhua's poetry; it's like organic poetry growing from the earth. "Writing poetry in the clouds, living in the mud" is a saying I draw inspiration from.
——Singer Li Jian always brings a copy of Yu Xiuhua whenever he goes abroad to study or work. In a busy but thin life, I use poetry to remind myself that this world has both pain and beauty.
—Zhan Qingyun: Her poetry is far more thrilling, more luminous, and more brutal than she and her life. In her poetry, I find peace in being like her, "just patiently living, unhealthy and unhappy." For me, this kind of companionship is invaluable. Presumably, she knew this was the meaning of her poetry.
--Host Chen Luyu: I love Yu Xiuhua's poetry. It's like organic poetry growing from the earth. "Writing poetry in the clouds, living in the mud" is a saying I draw inspiration from.
Singer Li Jian: Yu Xiuhua is a poet of profound essence. Her poetry demonstrates a precious, yet unadorned understanding of many aspects of the human world. There's a rare resistance to poetic discipline in her writing. She's both sensitive to current poetic trends and consciously wary of their potential to attract her. Most importantly, she writes with a raw, vibrant sensibility, a quality I find truly rare.
—Poet and Peking University professor Zang Di In an age of affectation, sincerity has become a scarce resource. In this sense, Yu Xiuhua's poetry is like the sound of nature.
—Scholar Yu Guoming: Yu Xiuhua's poetry appeals to the mysterious, irrational logic of poetry itself, a subtlety all its own. While eloquent poetry has always been highly prized in contemporary Chinese poetry, Yu Xiuhua's poetry forgoes debate, self-justification, and even conclusions, thus creating a non-aggressive relationship with the reader.
——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's poems stand out among the poems of Chinese female poets, just like placing a murderer among a group of ladies from noble families - others are all dressed neatly, with makeup and perfume on their faces, and their words are written in black and white, without a trace of sweat, but hers are covered in smoke and fire, with mud and sand everywhere, and there are obvious bloodstains between the words.
——Liu Nian, editor of Poetry Magazine◎ Editor’s Recommendation★ Sincerely recommended by actress Joan Chen, scholar Luo Xin, musicians Zhou Yunpeng and Cheng Bi, debater Zhan Qingyun from “The Rap of China”, 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 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 transcends identity and social circles; the poet imbues her verses with the power of life, creating an irresistible resonance among the public. For the launch of this hardcover edition, many fans of Yu Xiuhua's work from all walks of life were invited to read her poems aloud.
Readers include: scholars Yu Guoming, Luo Xin, and Li Songwei; writers Zhou Guoping, Guo Hong, Han Songluo, Ning Yuan, Fei Duo, You Lin, Ma Ning, and Chen Tong; hosts Chen Luyu, Luo Xin, Zhang Dandan, Xu Man, and Xiao Ma Ge; musicians Yao Qian, Zhou Yunpeng, Xiao He, Zhong Lifeng, Ma Di, Xu Fei, Cheng Bi, and the landlord's cat; fashion and entertainment figures Rebecca, Huang Jue, and Mai Zi; Zhan Qingyun, Pang Ying, and Chi Zi; and artists Guo Pei, Yan Ming, Han Zhanning, Gao Yiqiang, and Li Yugang.
★Yu Xiuhua's poetry style is passionate and bold, conveying a strong and sincere life force.
In Yu Xiuhua's poetry, body and soul, ego and the world, the moment and eternity, philosophy and emotion, blend with explosive intensity, forcing you to abandon your judgment and drift recklessly in the torrent of her verses. —Luo Xin★ Includes full-color images, recreating the poet's life and creative environment, precious scenes no longer available today.
Fifteen full-color images capture the everyday rural scenes depicted in Yu Xiuhua's poetry, the everyday imagery that fueled her rich imagination. Today, the lotus ponds, hills, fields, wheat paddies, and old houses depicted in these images—these scenes, often depicted in simple strokes by Yu Xiuhua, have vanished with the ongoing construction of new rural areas.
This book is a new hardcover edition of Yu Xiuhua's debut poetry collection, "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand." Upon its 2015 publication, "Moonlight Falls on the Left Hand" garnered widespread acclaim, its phenomenal popularity sparking a wave of interest in poetry. This hardcover edition includes over 140 of Yu Xiuhua's works, including over ten new pieces, along with full-color images capturing her life and creative environment.
The poems in the book present the poet's perception of 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 revealed 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 emotions jumping or sinking. It's just that when the soul calls, it comes in the posture of a child, but it acts as a crutch when a person staggers in the staggering world."

2020-09-01

北京十月文艺出版社

New Classic Amber, New Classic Culture

255

9787530220702