Xiao Ning

▍A collection of poems written for contemporaries
Xiao Ning and A Jun symbolize the young men and women on the island. The confusion they encounter on the streets, the anxiety of being unable to escape from social competition, and the pursuit of the meaning of ordinary life are all things that people in this generation have experienced or will eventually experience. The process of love and separation, hope and loss, joy and exile...

The emotions of a generation are recorded and scattered in every rain, flowing into the history of a generation.

// I'm standing in the rain
No rain has ever gotten me wet //

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▍Who is not his only invincible position──poets and writers share the praise

"Xiao Ning" is a confessional love poem of youth. In the pursuit and memory of love, Xiao Ning and A Jun walked around the island and spent the most intense summer. However, the young man and woman were always sad and happy in their hearts. Measures; there is no wave worth starting over again...
"Xiao Ning" is a cartography of the times. Lovers walk hand in hand through the borders of political power, to the countryside at night, to Lu'ermen, to Anarch and shrimp fishing grounds. The foundation of love is originally the scene of the island country where the poet lived and fought; it turns out that an island is slower than life and death, and colder than time...

"Xiao Ning" creates a rare style in modern poetry. The whole poem (structured by forty-one poems, but can actually be regarded as a long narrative poem) supports each other and explores hidden meanings. It is a Baudelaire-style wanderer. (Fencing with words) is also close to the youth chronicle of Luo Zhi's famous work "1979". The lovers' whispers make the metaphorical world appear seamlessly. ──Wu Huaichen (poet, professor at Taipei University of the Arts)

There is no more charming theme than youth, freedom and love. Noise and commotion, sentimentality and anger, passion and embarrassment, this book is a tender love letter, written to this still young but slightly old island, and this generation that is restless but unwilling to give up hope. ──Zhang Tiezhi (writer)

"Xiao Ning" can be regarded as Yang Zhijie's time notebook, with a heart hidden in the dust. As the title and starting point, calling for the ideal woman, as well as some subtle syntax and scene forging methods, it is inevitable that the atmosphere of Yang Mu, Yang Ze and Luo Zhicheng is revealed; however, the poet has inherited it, and at the same time, he also clearly shaped the rich character. Portraits of new island residents with personal colors and contemporary style, as well as key scenes that cannot be forgotten. Reading "Xiao Ning" is like walking in the rainy season under the sun, where excitement and depression are intertwined, and the world continues to unfold...──Yang Jiaxian (poet, scholar)

The wet sentimentality in Zhijie's poetic language comes from secrets and the long-lasting nightmare of the times. The poet's determination to "accelerate his own nothingness" has become a declaration for a generation to break with the hypocritical world. It's been a long time since I've seen the wantonness of this small-scale Romantic epic. It makes people unable to extricate themselves from losing their youth, then wake up licking their wounds and write fictional chronicles. ──Liao Weitang (poet, writer)