The poet who came to the art museum in this issue of poetry is named Honghong . For mainlanders, this name may seem a bit unfamiliar. But as long as the famous movie "Guling Street Teenage Murder Incident" is mentioned, literary and art workers will immediately realize the importance of this name - Honghong is one of the screenwriters of this movie.
He has collaborated with Edward Yang on three films: "The Murders on Kuling Street", "The Age of Independence" and "Terrorists". The script of "The Murders on Kuling Street" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay. .
was born in Taiwan and graduated from the Drama Department of the National Academy of Arts. He has directed more than 40 theater, opera, and dance performances. His film director works include "The Love of Three Oranges", "Human Comedy", "Hanging Garden", "The Man Who Walked Through the Wall" and many documentaries. He won the International Film Critics Award at the Chicago Film Festival and the Best Director Award at the Nantes Film Festival.
His identity as a poet cannot be ignored either - when the Taiwan Culture and Arts Foundation commissioned a public television station to produce a literary landscape unit, he was called "a strange fruit in Taiwan's modern literary world." : He has served as the editor-in-chief and founder of several poetry magazines, as well as the curator of poetry festivals. His writings are published in various forms such as poetry collections, essays, novels, reviews, and scripts. The tone of the poem exudes a free, happy, pure and fresh atmosphere, while at the same time showing humor, coldness and sensitivity. We invite Honghong to "Poetry Comes to the Art Museum" in the name of poetry, taking the audience to the land where he grew up and listening to his voice.
▍ Poetry reading
Sick
Humanity builds hospitals
To forget the killing
It is being carried out elsewhere
Who will treat the aphasia of Tibetan children?
Who will treat insomnia among pregnant women in Gaza?
Will protestors who sleep in the open get cold?
Will political prisoners in prison commit suicide?
The shivering sheep in the slaughterhouse
Does a psychiatrist need?
The herd of dairy cows in the pasture that are constantly producing milk
Is there a disease that can be named that makes them unable to see the emptiness of their calves?
In the hospital atrium
A squirrel climbs the treetops
The patients are all smiling
Tomorrow will be better
Tomorrow everything will be fine
Hesitating
The baby will spit out the milk he drank
The cat will spit it out again
The food that was swallowed
was spat out again
If it wasn't discovered
I'd eat it again
The saliva I swallowed during the kiss
eventually came out from my eyes again
In the winter, I took a deep breath
and sneezed really hard.
Those beautiful promises and lies that he heard year after year
irrigated the curse of the cloudiness between his teeth
The distant and gentle song hummed by the nanny
One day turned into a healing guitar under his fingers
Those swallowed by fate Some people who couldn't get down and vomited out
became self-immolators, and some became Yu Xiuhua
▍ About the poet
Honghong
Poet, theater and film director. Born in Taiwan in 1964, he graduated from the Drama Department of the National Academy of Arts and currently teaches in the Film Department of the National Taipei University of the Arts. He has won the Wu Sanlian Literary Award, the 2008 Poet Award, and the Nanying Literary Award for Excellence. He once edited the revived issue of "Modern Poetry" and co-created "Modern Poetry" with Xia Yu, Ling Yu and other poets. Currently hosting "Black Eyes Culture" and "Black Eyes Inter-Theater Troupe". Since 2004, he has served as the curator of the Taipei Poetry Festival, the New Taipei City Film Festival, and the Tibet Cultural Festival many times. And with the "Toilet Paper+" poetry magazine founded in 2008, he called for a realistic writing direction.
has published seven collections of poems, including "Homemade Bombs" and "Songs of the Mob", essays "Agua's Diary - Notes of the Literary Youth of the 1980s", "Children's Paradise", "T-Shirt Showing", and the novel " "Hui pinch ", reviews "New Century Taiwan Theater" and various scripts.
has directed more than 40 theater, opera, and dance performances.His film director works include "The Love of Three Oranges", "Human Comedy", "Hanging Garden", "The Man Who Walked Through the Wall" and many documentaries. He won the International Film Critics Award at the Chicago Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the Nantes Film Festival, etc. "The Murders on Kuling Street", co-written with Edward Yang, won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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