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Poetry: What I Think

Rating 2.3
Word count
52K words
Chapters
159
ISBN
9787550032200

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Summary

This is a collection of modern poetry by Deng Jianzhong, a middle school teacher in Yongzhou, Hunan. Poetry of My Thoughts is divided into six sections: Thousand-Mile Fragrance, Dreaming of the Peach Blossom Spring, The Fading Valentine's Day, The Moon in the Mountains, A Beautiful Encounter, and Rainy Night on the Xiao and Xiang. These works cover themes such as dreams, love, hometown, and the passage of years, and are all faithful records of life as it is.

Editor's review

Poetry of My Thoughts is an honest work by a middle school teacher who, beyond his daily career of teaching and nurturing students, persisted in using poetry to record his inner life and lived experience. The book unfolds in six sections—Thousand-Mile Fragrance, Dreaming of the Peach Blossom Spring, The Fading Valentine's Day, The Moon in the Mountains, A Beautiful Encounter, and Rainy Night on the Xiao and Xiang—touching on themes of dreams, love, hometown, and the passage of years. The emotional thread is clear, the language plain and warm, without deliberate polish, so that reading feels like listening to someone tell a story close at hand. The author has long lived in Yongzhou, Hunan, and the landscapes and local atmosphere in the poems add a genuine texture of lived life to the work. It suits casual reading on a quiet night or during a commute. For ordinary readers who like modern poetry but do not want to be blocked by difficult imagery, this collection offers a gentle entry point, and it also lets aspiring writers see how everyday experience can be turned into lines of verse.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Ordinary readers who like modern poetry but prefer plain language and direct emotion
  • Middle-aged readers who resonate with themes of hometown, family, and the passage of years
  • Middle school Chinese teachers and writing enthusiasts who can look to it for poetic expression of everyday experience
  • Commuters who want to use fragmented time to read a poetry collection casually

Not a good fit for

  • Veteran poetry readers seeking experimental, avant-garde language and complex rhetoric
  • Readers hoping to gain systematic poetic theory or critical methods from the collection
  • Readers who prefer strong plot-driven narrative and have limited patience for lines of verse

Reading tips

  1. Read through in the order of the six sections to feel the author's emotional arc from dreams and love to hometown
  2. Read three to five poems a day, during the commute or before bed, without trying to finish in one sitting
  3. Jot notes beside lines that strike you, recording how they correspond to your own experience
  4. Pick out poems about hometown and landscapes to read alongside local scenery for a stronger sense of immersion

About the publisher

Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional literature and art publisher. Judging from the books in the database, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, world classics, prose and miscellaneous writings, and classic works, while also covering literary appreciation and cultural reading. Representative titles include The Painter of Modern Life, Jane Eyre, Six Chapters of a Floating Life, The Moon and Sixpence, Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin, A Sportsman's Sketches, and Collected Prose of Famous Masters, involving Chinese and foreign authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Shen Fu, and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as translators including Guo Hong'an, Chen Jinhui, Jing Xing, and Jiao Haili. Overall, the press emphasizes the introduction of classic texts and the compilation of prose works, presenting a publishing profile centered on literary reading and cultural accumulation. As public information is limited, other aspects are not elaborated here.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 自序 在不读诗的年代写首诗
  3. 第1辑 千里香
  4. 千里香
  5. 地球是个幼儿园
  6. 七月
  7. 秋虫的歌唱
  8. 母亲从这里走过
  9. 伏水河的清晨
  10. 中午
  11. 战栗
  12. 在湖里洗澡
  13. 月光草坪
  14. 一只喜鹊叫了
  15. 阳明山
  16. 演戏
  17. 我摔了一跤
  18. 似是而非
  19. 情人节
  20. 沏一壶茶
  21. 乐海湖的春天
  22. 老屋
  23. 红尘
  24. 河中石
  25. 独不见
  26. 2016年中秋
  27. 失身
  28. 第2辑 梦桃源
  29. 梦桃源
  30. 扎扫把的人
  31. 河底之蚌
  32. 大地之子
  33. 猫之道
  34. 真相
  35. 这个干净的秋天
  36. 在广州
  37. 油菜花开
  38. 隐于山
  39. 小偷光顾了我的房子
  40. 洗碗的时候
  41. 听说月光会疗伤
  42. 十月一日
  43. 十二月
  44. 赛跑
  45. 日子
  46. 满庭芳
  47. 满山青
  48. 绿
  49. 春天的路上
  50. 春耕
  51. 白月光
  52. 白
  53. 爱情的囚犯
  54. 11月17日大雾
  55. 第3辑 远去的情人节
  56. 灯下的莲
  57. 远去的情人节(一)
  58. 远去的情人节(二)
  59. 醉婵娟
  60. 主人与狗
  61. 劫
  62. 中秋望月
  63. 中秋
  64. 元宵
  65. 雨季
  66. 写给新年
  67. 我给春天拜个年
  68. 遛狗的女人
  69. 留不住
  70. 猎手
  71. 荒年
  72. 红莲盛开的那天
  73. 独身的日子
  74. 穿过你的黑夜
  75. 除夕
  76. 槟榔的味道
  77. 11月11日
  78. 飞进玻璃窗的蝴蝶
  79. 空虚
  80. 第4辑 山里的月亮
  81. 山里的月亮
  82. 割禾
  83. 乐海湖畔的野菊花
  84. 乐海湖
  85. 垂钓者
  86. 建筑工人
  87. 山是月摇篮,水是月故乡
  88. 皱巴巴的爷爷
  89. 秋天颂
  90. 一起去看油茶花
  91. 秋雨
  92. 雨下了很久
  93. 枯树
  94. 假日里的乐海湖
  95. 麻拐井村
  96. 深山野岭
  97. 乡村的牛市
  98. 去放牛
  99. 它很牛
  100. 五月的乡村
  101. 乡间月
  102. 秋天的歌
  103. 故乡
  104. 第5辑 最美的相遇
  105. 最美的相遇
  106. 一树繁华
  107. 江永上甘棠村
  108. 青春的你
  109. 黑白之间
  110. 都庞岭下
  111. 秋风起
  112. 远山的柿子红了
  113. 雨落在屋瓦上
  114. 一个清晨的寂静
  115. 一地的白
  116. 邂逅一场雨
  117. 小阳春
  118. 偷生
  119. 时间的弃徒
  120. 秋分
  121. 江永千家峒大泊水瀑布
  122. 梦的衣裳
  123. 满庭的落叶
  124. 乐海湖畔的中秋
  125. 今天,我不戴眼镜
  126. 鸡爪树
  127. 活着的理由
  128. 风从树下穿过
  129. 第6辑 潇湘夜雨
  130. 潇湘夜雨
  131. 月牙泉
  132. 山上的神
  133. 苟活
  134. 2016年第一天
  135. 中年
  136. 在坪子上晒太阳
  137. 镜中人
  138. 月岩
  139. 雪未下
  140. 醒来
  141. 校园里的天竺桂
  142. 停电的夜晚
  143. 听蛙
  144. 天堂的集市
  145. 清晨
  146. 秦岩
  147. 黄昏
  148. 冬天的鸦群
  149. 致一个乞丐
  150. 这一天
  151. 早上出门
  152. 夜晚的街道
  153. 荒鸡
  154. 又是年底时
  155. 垃圾堆上的桃树
  156. 女贞树的果实落了
  157. 忘
  158. 秋收时节
  159. 后记

FAQ

Is this book suitable for readers with no foundation in reading poetry?
Yes. The works in the collection use plain language and direct emotion, with themes centered on dreams, love, hometown, and the passage of years. They do not rely on complex allusions or obscure imagery, so readers new to modern poetry can enter smoothly without worrying about not understanding it.
How does the author's identity help in reading this book?
The author is a middle school teacher in Yongzhou, Hunan, who has long lived at the grassroots level. This identity makes the local scenery and everyday experience in the poems feel real and tangible; readers can see the book as the life record left in poetry by an ordinary educator.
Do the six sections need to be read in order?
Not strictly. Each of the six sections has its own thematic focus; readers can start with whichever section title interests them—for example, reading the parts about hometown or love first, then going back to read through—which makes it easier to stay engaged.

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About the author

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Deng Jianzhong is an author about whom little public information is currently available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and full writing career cannot be confirmed. According to the library's holdings, only one work by him is included, the poetry collection Shi Wo Suo Si (What I Think in Poetry), commonly classified as modern poetry. This suggests that Deng's writing is mainly concentrated in the field of modern poetry, using verse to carry personal feelings and inner reflection, and the title itself points to a creative orientation of "expressing thoughts through poetry." Because further biographical information and textual samples are lacking, it is difficult at present to make specific judgments about his stylistic sources, linguistic features, or literary influence; readers may turn to the text of Shi Wo Suo Si to appreciate how the author handles line breaks, imagery, and modes of lyrical expression.