Chapter 189 The world of poetry is originally a world of rivers and lakes
The Lu Academy building in Balizhuang has not been officially opened yet. It turns out that students from the Literature Lecture Institute also rented the Chaoyang Greening Team's room for classes, so the place was temporarily empty.
After Fang Minghua first arranged accommodation at the designated guest house, he immediately rushed to Luyuan and saw in a conference room judges arriving from all over the country.
Famous poets Ai Qing, Gong Mu, Zang Kejia, Feng Zhi, Liushahe, Shao Yanxiang, editor-in-chief of the "Poetry Magazine" magazine and poet, and Zhang Zhong'e, deputy editor-in-chief of poetry in "Contemporary", are all famous. Today, they are all famous. There are all big figures in the poetry world, but Fang Minghua is a junior.
The poetry award process is: recommended by provincial writers associations and important national publishing houses according to allocated quotas. The total number of recommendations for each session is two More than a hundred.
The recently established reading team will then submit a list of recommended books to the judging panel that is twice or twice the number of awards. Each recommended poetry collection will be accompanied by a 500-word recommendation for the judges' reference. The jury votes, and it takes 2/3 to win the award for a certain poetry collection.
This time the jury is expected to award 16 poetry collections. A total of 40 candidate poetry collections are circulated among the 15 judges. Everyone discusses with each other and debates are inevitable.
Now Fang Minghua is holding a poetry collection "Selected Lyrical Poems of Shu Ting and G Cheng" in his hand. This is the only poetry collection that the three major poets of Misty Poetry - Bei Dao, G Cheng and Shu Ting - participated in the selection.
Although Bei Dao has become famous all over the world at this time, unfortunately his poems are still published in many domestic magazines in the form of single poems, and have not yet formed a poetry collection.
The same is true for Gu Cheng, but the Min Provincial People's Publishing House published a total of 64 poems written by two young poets in the ten years from 1971 to 1981.
Shu Ting had already published her first poetry collection "Brig" by Shencheng Literature and Art Publishing House in 1982, and won the second prize in the first Literary Award of the Chinese Writers Association. Therefore, there are only 21 poems in this collection. . Gu Cheng's poems account for the vast majority.
His earlier works such as "A Generation", "I am a Wayward Child", "Please Pick Up This Flower", etc. are all collected here.
Fang Minghua took the poetry collection and read it carefully.
There are also poems that I am not familiar with, like Shu Ting’s "?.!".
Yes, the question is just a few punctuation marks.
"Now, let them
shoot at me
I will walk calmly across the open ground
Toward you, toward you
The wind raises the flying long Send
I am the lily in your shower.
The author always penetrates the indifference or false surface of real life to penetrate deep into the heart of life and appeals for people's truest requirements.
There is also this poem by Gu Cheng: "The Rain"
The clouds are so gray that they can no longer be washed away
We open our umbrellas and simply blacken the sky
There are two pairs of double stars in the slowly floating night
It seems that there is no fixed orbit, but it is far away and sometimes close
The writing is very beautiful.
According to the regulations, if you think a certain poetry collection is good, the jury will give everyone a special ballot with the name of the candidate poem. You can just put a check mark at the back and write at the same time. A review.
Fang Minghua picked up the pen and very solemnly made a checkmark at the back of the book of poems, then thought about it and began to write a review.
Sitting next to him is Zhang Zhong'e, deputy editor-in-chief of "Contemporary". In 1981, "Contemporary" magazine held a new era poetry competition. Fang Minghua won the second prize. He also came to Yanjing to receive the award and held a poetry seminar, so The two of them are considered acquaintances.
Zhang Zhong'e turned his head and accidentally saw Fang Minghua's check mark behind "Selected Lyrical Poems of Shu Ting and Gu Cheng" and couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Editor Fang, do you also like this poetry collection? "
"Yes, I think they are all beautifully written. In Shu Ting's poems, the description of friendship and love occupies a prominent position in these poems, showing the humaneness of a gentle and sentimental woman. , the turbulent spiritual world. ""As for Gu Cheng, in addition to "My Cemetery", "Yiyi", "Capital "I"" and other chapters, it touches on the existing society and euphemistically criticizes the politics that create the tragedy of life. In addition to power, most poems use a pure childlike innocence to create a "fairy tale garden" that is higher than the real world
In general: a touch of sadness constitutes this poem The tone of the collection of poems truly reflects the sense of loss of a generation of young people who have suffered misfortunes and the turmoil and anguish of seeking life fulfillment. I think it is very good, both in terms of text and content. ”
"Editor Fang, your analysis is good." Zhang Zhong'e nodded, suddenly lowering his voice and looking a little mysterious: "However, someone can say that this poetry collection does not meet the requirements of this selection."
"Doesn't meet the requirements? You Does it mean that this collection of poems was not written by one person but co-authored by two people?" Fang Minghua suddenly realized something.
Zhang Zhong'e nodded.
Fang Minghua was a little confused:
“Isn’t it right? Editor Zhang, the selection rules do not specify that the collection of poems must be written by one person. Besides, this award is for the collection of poems. Whether he is excellent or not is not a factor in selecting poets, does it matter? ”
Zhang Zhong'e smiled and said nothing more.
Fang Minghua didn’t ask any more questions and looked down at the poem manuscript.
The world of poetry is inherently a world of poetry. The big guys here are all inextricably linked to the authors of these collections of poems. They may like someone or hate someone. These subjective impressions can easily lead to negative feelings about poetry. Come from your own evaluation.
Shu Ting and Gu Cheng are both representatives of Misty Poetry, and there are some big guys here who don’t like Misty Poetry.
This is not hearsay, but a public matter. There have been debates about this in newspapers and magazines. It is not a secret.
Fang Minghua didn't pay attention to this matter.
If I like it, I will put a check mark, and if I don’t like it, I will put a cross. Whether I win or not is not the final decision for me.
After five days of repeated discussions, the judges selected 15 books from the 40 recommended poetry books to win this year's poetry award, but there was a fierce debate over the final one.
It happens to be the "Selected Lyric Poems of Shu Ting and G Cheng" written by Shu Ting and G Cheng.
In the afternoon, 15 judges gathered in the conference room of Luyuan to have a heated debate on whether this poetry collection should be selected.
In fact, what is there to argue about?
According to the rules of this selection, if two-thirds of the 15 judges vote in favor, then a certain collection of poems can successfully win the award, and this collection of poems by Shu Ting and Gu Cheng received 10 votes, just above the minimum required Number of votes.
However, the most critical person did not vote in favor.
Ai Qing, the director of the jury this time.
Fang Minghua sat at the edge, drinking tea silently and listening to Ai Qing’s opinions:
"This collection of poems was written by two people respectively, which means it collects the better poems written by two people. This is unfair to other poets. In addition, Comrade Shu Ting has already won the first Modern Literature Award with her The poem "Brig" has already won an award, so let's forget it this time."
Everyone listened silently and said nothing.
Actually, everyone knows it.
Ai Qing doesn’t like hazy poetry.
(End of this chapter)