Utopia Guide / Poems and Songs: Heavy Rain Against

Let us become the rainstorm, carrying thunder and lightning, to oppose the silence of this era.
Against the noise of this era, against the dryness of this era.
If the world is full of rhetoric about illusions, it is the duty of poets and musicians to oppose it.

Poems and songs born from the tide of the times are the result of the creators' constant struggle with ideas.
The anger and emotions of every era are rekindled in poetry and songs!

Liao Weitong uses the nature of a poet, the heart of a music fan, and the pen of a critic to search for the imprint of poetry and music in the passionate texts of the past dynasties.

Poetry and song should both find a more beautiful posture to bear the weight of this era. Rereading "Further, Further, Reborn" now, I surprisingly have optimistic thoughts about the mutual attraction between art and reality, like a kite riding the wind. -- Liao Wai-tong

The "Utopia Guide" series continues with Volume 1, "Reading Volume: Enchantment and Disenchantment," and Volume 2, "Film Volume: Confessions of a Shadow," and now welcomes Volume 3, "Poetry and Song Volume: Stormy Opposition."

This book is divided into two volumes:

The first series, "Poets Walking in the Night," draws from the uncertain past of history and calls upon poets who responded to the various aspects of society in the perilous times of the past and present, including Ikkyu Sojun, who challenged the rules of Buddhist and Japanese poetry, W.H. Auden, a famous British and American poet, Miyazawa Kenji, a Japanese national poet, Matsuo Basho, the master of haiku, and Taneda Santoka, who looked back at the abyss. From Ji Xian, Luo Fu, who used poetry to question the essence of life, Zhou Mengdie, whose poetry was clear and enlightened, and the independent and resolute Liu Xia, to the classical Du Fu and Li Bai, Charlie Bukowski, the poet laureate of the American grassroots, Hong Hong, who dared to write poetry that was not poetry, Liang Bingjun, who listened to the thunder and cicadas of Hong Kong, and the Chinese poet-director Qiu Gangjian, etc.

The second volume, "Too Lonely a Noise," takes stock of singers, crossover musicians, and even bands from all genres of music in the East and the West: from legendary musician Bob Dylan, crossover singer Ooti Lampe, the inspired Leonard Cohen, Japanese folk singer Morita Douji, the super-ethnic music band Da Wang Gang, modern Chinese rock poet Cui Jian, the weird wizard Zuo Xiaozuo, the hungry artist Universal Youth Hostel, the accordion-playing band Wu Tiao Ren, Tat Ming Pair and the "forbidden" Anthony Wong, James Wong of Canghai Yi Sheng Xiao, to Hong Kong's eternal Wong Ka Kui and Beyond...

Poems and songs born from the tide of the times, rich in the complex emotions of the times, are the imprint left by a generation's worship of art and pursuit of life. On the surface, it seems that the new wave is replacing the old one, but what truly remains are works that maintain endless growth and constantly reflect, constantly struggle and fight with ideas. They also keep the soil for nurturing the next generation loose, allowing nutrients to repeatedly nourish the next peaceful and prosperous era.

2020-03-17

聯經出版公司

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9789570854855