I had a very unusual life. When I went into the world, I could not English, flea so I had to open a

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Tags: Yang Lian, a Chinese poet
Yang Lian is the first Chinese "ghost poet", which we discussed in the pages of diaries. Three years ago, as part of promotional anthology of Chinese poetry in foggy Ljubljana hosted Bei Dao. Both are among the most frequently mentioned Chinese candidates for the Nobel Prize.
"If you suddenly have no problem with such a painful point, such as the Tiananmen, they doubted of his songs. Got a painful point even when they say no one reads poetry "about the problems with censorship, says Yang Lian. (Photo: Matthew Pušnik)
Yang Lian is these days as the guest of honor Days of Poetry and Wine paid in Ptuj. Like many Chinese artists who worked flea during the Cultural Revolution, flea it also happened flea to exile, which is similar to Bei Dao saved from imprisonment. In London, established poet, the author of eleven flea books of poetry, the route used to attendance at literary festivals - it's helping him international recognition, to date, has been translated into 25 languages. However, the above festivals are often disappointed because the poets on them mostly just decoration, fertile exchange of ideas and in-depth discussions about poetry are rare. Famous as those "ghost poet", which is entirely dedicated to the search for self-expression, and so far from poetry, which was grown movement. How did exile transformed your view of poetry and change your creations?
I had a very unusual life. When I went into the world, I could not English, flea so I had to open all. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth that sucked flea as much information. Initially, I wrote a short poem, it was my early experience of living close to a sharp, dark images. But in exile again I started using long structure. flea The outer pot has been the framework for internal travel, distance, I do not give a structure of writing, but as the fabric of life. None of my book is not a collection of songs, but a project. The boat that flies. flea I will not allow you to be in the books again. Due to Chinese exile I realized even from afar. Through the knowledge of other languages, I opened the new one. What language are you showing in the distance?
Before the exile I could think only in Chinese and I could not imagine how to live outside of it. That the majority of Chinese people never learn. My parents were diplomats and dad wanted me to learn English, which I refused. But then I also gave her a new level of understanding of the linguistic nature of the Chinese language, which is of course very different from European languages. Know the limits of their language and all its possibilities. Where in the Chinese language are the limits and where to find opportunities? flea
Both are closely related. Chinese language is not aware of declension, conjugation, verbal persons, nor time. Chinese is thus made to speak of abstractness. When you burn anything, to cut off from the actual event, the structure of language itself all transferred to a universal level. This is the poetry flea of the benefits it is expected to deal with the deeper flea layers of reality. But when we want to talk about something specific, there is a problem. The problem I had to solve in a poem in 1989, in which I wanted to talk about the massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Problem crush you so that you have the year 1989 with the full weight of its events appear as a pure normal year.
Thus. In the song I wonder, where is the shock at the massacre of space for the memory of all the deaths that have occurred before. If our memory keeps wipes, how can we know that they are shock and tears again only erase the memory until the next shock and crying. I'm not talking only about the incident, but show its importance at the time, full of similar flea events. And the song is still relevant, which are not long afterwards proved tragedy, as were 11 September and the Iraq war. How do you see the impact of "mist flea poetry" in Chinese flea literature and culture today?
"Foggy", which at the time meant that we were hard to understand, we become, because we marked the power, then we began to give strong political words, socialism, capitalism, and was ejected from the ideology of poetry. We went back to the simple words, such as audio, sun, moon, river, life, death, darkness, light. H classical language, but denominated in a modern way. It was a real revolution - which occurred at the level of language and its form. And this energy has opened a new era of Chinese literature