木心诗选

by Mu Xin, 木心

《木心诗选》的诗歌，共七辑（158首），从最早期的《阿里山之夜》，到最为读者所知的《从前慢》，以及最最“天书”的《同袍》四言诗等，各个时期的，均精选于木心生前自订的全部六种诗集——《我纷纷的情欲》《西班牙三棵树》《伪所罗门书》《巴珑》《诗经演》《云雀叫了一整天》。

木心的诗，例外与常态，跳出惯性思维的思维，是空话套话的死敌。诗的品质，嫉俗如仇，不炫耀不喧闹，以“故实”抒情，形成“遐想中低声吟咏的力量”，和现实生活、历史时空、古典文学、西方文化文学都形成互文。

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2015

About the author

Mu Xin (1927-2011) was the pen name of a renowned Chinese diasporan writer and artist who once lived in the New York area. Mu Xin was born in Wuzhen, South China, into a wealthy aristocratic family with business interests in Shanghai. He was among the last generation to receive a classical education in the literati tradition, but he was also exposed through voluminous reading to the highest achievements of Western art and culture.

From 1947 to 1949, Mu Xin attended Shanghai Institute of the Arts. From 1949 until 1982, when he came to the United States, MuXin lived in China. Although he wrote profusely in that period, all of his earlier manuscripts were confiscated and destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Since 1982, MuXin published twelve books of fiction, prose, and poetry (in Chinese) and contributed to literary columns in Chinese journals and newspapers outside the PRC. Among the Chinese diaspora, MuXin’s works have attracted an intense following.

Few Chinese writers in modern history have as firm a mastery of the Chinese cultural and linguistic heritage as MuXin did. Innovatively combining fiction, sanwen (a Chinese genre which blends characteristics of the essay, fiction, and poetry), and philosophical reflections, MuXin’s writing is both profoundly Chinese and reminiscent of the internalization and unconventionality of Western modern masters. In addition to his literary accomplishments, MuXin was also a well recognized artist whose paintings are preserved, among other places, at Yale University and Harvard University Art Galleries.

Reviews

[Joyce Cheng · Rating 5 out of 5]

以爲真正的詩本身就是極私人的寫作形式，誠懇的直覺即美。基於此，不認爲自己能夠給一個所謂分數.....

[Ying Yin · Rating 4 out of 5]

还值得一个弥撒吗