Chapter 234 233 "Rural Teacher" was nominated for the American Nebula Award for Best Short Story
The time has arrived at the end of May. Fang Minghua has completed two lectures at Xijing College, and today is the third lecture at the college.
The address of Xijing Literary College is in Dapiyuan of Beiyuanmen, near the famous Muslim Street in later generations.
In the map of Xi'an Prefecture during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there is the Guangdong and Guangxi Guild Hall on the north side of Dongkou Road in Dapiyuan. At that time, Emperor Guan and Wenchang were worshiped in it.
After liberation, the site of the Guangdong and Guangxi Guild Hall was transformed into Tuanjie Primary School. Although the current Tuanjie Primary School has no students, the gatehouse of the "Lianhu Tuanjie Primary School" still stands here.
The School of Liberal Arts is located here.
Today we are talking about poetry writing skills.
“Students, one of the techniques of modern poetry writing is the reasonable use of disjointed and blank lines. Let me give you an example: the American poet Ezra Pound’s poem “Metro Station” is a good example of this technique. Technique.
Fang Minghua stood on the podium and wrote a poem on the blackboard:
“The faces that emerged in the crowd
Wet, petals on the dark branches."
"Please take a look at this sentence. "Fang Minghua turned around again and looked at the students in the classroom, pointing at the blackboard with his pointer.
"In the two isolated images, the poet removed the association, resulting in a de facto disconnect between the two. It is this disconnect that releases the imagination of the viewers and gives them a broader space for thinking. ."
The students in the audience were listening and taking notes carefully. The classroom was very quiet.
At this moment, a person hurried over and stood at the door of the classroom and shouted Fang Minghua shouted: "Brother Minghua, your letter is from the United States!
It's Zhang Baofu.
The students' attention was quickly attracted to him, and they looked at him one after another.
Fang Minghua felt a little unhappy.
We were in class, why did you suddenly come over and tell me this?
But seeing Zhang Baofu panting, he should be grateful that someone came from the magazine to deliver the letter. ”
"Thank you, you put it on the windowsill first." Fang Minghua replied, and then looked at the students under the podium: "Okay, everyone, continue to listen to the class carefully."
"I gave an example of "disconnection" earlier. Poetry writing skills, below I will give an example of "empty lines. "
"Empty lines. Empty lines are generally used in micro-poems. Those used before them are often inspiring sentences, such as this one."
Fang Minghua turned around and looked at the blackboard. "Shuasha" wrote a line, turned around, patted the chalk dust on his hands, and continued:
"A stern judge
In the midst of the cold proceedings
Spring bloomed on his face.
"Here "a stern judge" and "In the midst of the cold proceedings/His face bloomed There is a blank line between "Spring", because it is a miniature poem, these three lines are coherent, but it is not difficult for readers to divide it into two sections to read; what is used at the end is often some concluding sentences"
For a full hour and a half, Fang Minghua completed today’s lecture
“Stand up! ”
"Goodbye, teacher!" the temporarily elected monitor led everyone to shout.
"Goodbye, classmates!" Fang Minghua returned the gift seriously.
The get out of class was over, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively. The students in the class were chatting and laughing in twos and threes.
Fang Minghua just left the classroom to pick up the letter on the window sill.
"Teacher Fang, are you friends from the United States?" asked a girl, Liu Meimei.
Liu Meimei is the youngest in the class, has a lively and cheerful personality, and is loved by everyone.
Fang Minghua looked at the mailing address of the envelope with a surprised look on his face, then opened the letterhead and took out the letter paper.
It is an invitation letter.
Very considerate, it is in Chinese and English. Fang Minghua read it carefully with a smile on his face.
He then said to the girl: "No, it's a letter from the American Nebula Awards jury, inviting me to attend this year's award ceremony.
"Huh? Going to the United States for an awards ceremony? ! "
Liu Meimei was shocked.
Her words also attracted the surrounding students, who gathered around and asked what was going on?
Fang Minghua had no choice but to explain: "Xingyun The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Award is an award established by the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. It is selected and awarded annually by the association. It is limited to original American works or foreign works translated and published in the United States. ”
"The awards include Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Short Story. The article "Country Teacher" I wrote was nominated for the Best Novelette Award, so I was invited to the United States to attend the award. Ceremony. "
Wow. Going to the United States to receive the award!
Everyone had a look of envy on their faces.
Liu Meimei admired her even more: "Teacher Fang, you are so amazing!"
"It's just a nomination, you may not win the award in the end." Fang Minghua corrected.
"You should go regardless of whether you win or not. Besides, Teacher Fang, you will definitely win!" the girl said.
"Going to the United States? How can it be so easy?" Fang Minghua was a little helpless.
Look at the award ceremony time, July 6th, which is one month away.
How can I get a visa in one month? !
The craze for going abroad started in the early 1980s and is getting stronger.
As long as we talk about going abroad, regardless of country, the United States, Japan, Western Europe, Eastern Europe... New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, major universities, especially famous universities such as Qingbei University of Science and Technology, are flocking here.
Those who act in movies, sing, act in plays, dance, play table tennis, play violin, and paint in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai... almost everything they can think of comes out. It is said that 95% of the first-line young film actors went abroad in the 1980s, and Liu Xiaoqing and Tang Guoqiang were probably the only ones left.
A typical example is the movie queen Chen Chong who left behind a flourishing career and was willing to go to the United States to wash dishes.
Another characteristic is that in addition to students from prestigious universities going abroad, there are also many people in society who are already working and in their twenties and thirties who resign and go abroad, just like Jiang Wen in "Yenjing Man in New York" Wang Qiming, played by Wang Qiming, is a famous cellist in an orchestra in Yanjing.
Of course, not to mention all kinds of usury loans to smugglers to smuggle passengers.
These days, people who smuggle themselves into the United States are jokingly called "Wanba Ge and Wanba Sao", which means that the smuggling fee they pay to the smuggler is 18,000 US dollars!
Eighteen thousand US dollars, the current black market price is nearly 150,000 RMB!
This is an astronomical figure in this era, but it still cannot stop some people from selling their entire family’s assets or even borrowing money to give it to snakeheads. Carrying various dreams and using various methods, they traveled to foreign lands in groups.
Some people call it "foreign queue jumping".
It is said that at the entrance of the US Consulate General in Shanghai, young people applying for visas line up in a long line every day.
Moreover, for a well-organized person like Fang Minghua, the more important part is the political review!
In these days, the political review process for going abroad is the most stringent among all political review processes.
Who knows if you will never come back again?
However, the Nebula Awards jury cannot be blamed for this situation. They only selected the award nominees at this time. In the past, they were all European and American. Who knew there would be a Chinese this time?
Looks like we can only give up.
How about writing a letter to Sun Lizhe in the United States and asking him to lead it if he wins?
This award ceremony was in Chicago, where he also happened to go to school.
That’s all.
But before Fang Minghua wrote the letter, he suddenly received a notice from the National Writers Association:
Let him go to the University of Iowa to participate in the "International Writing Program".
(End of this chapter)