1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 608 The Three Musketeers Lost the Second

Obscure poetry, in the 80s and [-]s, was a BUG-like existence in the Chinese cultural circle.

It was rejected by mainstream poetry, but abruptly expanded its readership to a larger audience than mainstream poetry.

In that era, Misty poets had an influence comparable to idols, and countless readers were crazy about them.

Haizi is a representative figure of the Misty Poetry School in later generations. When it comes to Misty Poetry, people will always mention him, but his fame is actually many years later than representative poets of Misty Poetry such as Bei Dao and Shu Ting.

Moreover, misty poetry began to decline as early as 1982, and completely disintegrated in the mid-80s.

Afterwards, late-stage obscurity poems or cultural poems originated from Jiang He and Yang Lian appeared, and a new wave of trendy poetry began to brew and grow. This type of poetry was mainly born on campus, and in the mid-80s Later, a new trend of poetic experimentation was formed.

And Haizi is actually the representative poet of late Misty poetry.

Even before his death, he only compiled and printed his own collection of poems at his own expense, not even a published collection of poems.

Therefore, Haizi's reputation among poetry lovers of this era is far less than that of later generations.

Zhou Jun is obviously a senior poetry lover, and he is deeply concerned about Haizi's death.

Now is the early 90s, although the influence of Misty Poetry can no longer be compared with previous years, its influence on campus is still not to be underestimated.

Zhou Jun's proposal reminded Lin Weimin that although the Misty Poetry School has declined now, its once powerful influence has existed firmly, and it still has a fairly large readership.

Lin Weimin promised to publish a collection of poems for Haizi, but he didn't just want to publish a collection of poems for Haizi.

It is entirely possible to take this opportunity to collect all the classic poems produced by the Misty Poetry School over the years, let's start with Haizi's works.

Lin Weimin asked his colleagues in the planning office to contact Luo Yihe and Xichuan, but Li Qingquan, who had a three-quarter-seven haircut, told Lin Weimin: "Editor-in-Chief, Luo Yihe has passed away."

"Dead? When did it happen?"

"The year before last, the year Haizi passed away."

Lin Weimin muttered in his heart, Zhou Jun's news is not allowed!
"Then contact Xi Chuan."

"it is good."

After chatting with colleagues in the planning room, Lin Weimin called Mo Wenzheng from the poetry group.

In the early years of the Guowen Society, there were many poets, such as Tu An, Lu Yuan, Niu Han, etc., all of whom were very important figures in the Chinese poetry circle.

Therefore, the poetry group of Guowen Society can be regarded as a well-known existence in the domestic publishing industry.

Now generations of old people have retired, and the leader of the poetry group has become Mo Wenzheng, who is also a poet and has published many collections of poetry.

The Guowen Society is going to publish a collection of obscurity poems. As the head of the poetry group, Mo Wenzheng must participate in the editorial review. He is now nearly [-] years old, and his writing style is completely different from that of obscurity poems. Therefore, Lin Weimin must communicate with him in advance to save the old comrades Feel uncomfortable.

After hearing Lin Weimin's words, Mo Wenzheng knew that Lin Weimin respected him.Although he is an old-fashioned poet, he does not reject obscurity poems, and later generations edited and reviewed Xi Chuan's poetry anthology.

He said with a smile: "It's no problem to entrust this task to our poetry group. We will definitely complete the task with quality and quantity."

With his statement, Lin Weimin nodded with a smile, "Then I can rest assured."

Two days later, Xi Chuan walked into the Guowen Society building with some nervousness.

He, Haizi and Luo Yihe were all classmates of Yanda University. In the mid-to-late 80s, the three were called the "Three Musketeers of Yanda University". Now that Haizi and Luo Yihe passed away one after another, he has been silent for several years.

Xi Chuan graduated from Yan University in 85. Apart from his own job, he devoted most of his time to poetry creation and poetry publications.

In the 80s, readers’ enthusiasm for poetry was incomparable, but there were not many real poetry magazines in China. Most of them came from university magazines, or folk publications spontaneously participated by poets or poetry lovers. , Xi Chuan has participated in the editing work of the poetry magazine "Tendency" in recent years.

"Tendency" is a poetry magazine co-founded by Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Chen Dongdong and other friends. It was first published in 88. It has been quite famous in the domestic poetry circle in recent years, but unfortunately it was just suspended this year.

For Xi Chuan and his group of poets, the Guowen Society not only represented the highest palace in the domestic literary world, but also had other perceptions.

The vast majority of poets, no matter what their jobs are, are always outside the mainstream literary world in terms of literary creation. Therefore, for units such as the Guowen Society, there will always be a kind of envy and The mentality of disgust, in short, is very contradictory.

Xi Chuan didn't expect that he would be invited directly to the editor-in-chief's office after he entered the building. When he saw Lin Weimin, he became even more nervous.

The circle of poets is very small, so he knows very few writers, let alone writers of Lin Weimin's level.

Although Xi Chuan likes poetry, he has read Lin Weimin's works in recent years.

He went up to shake hands with Lin Weimin and said hello, "Mr. Lin, I like your "Hunting" very much."

Lin Weimin asked with a smile: "Not many people have read this novel, right?"

"Hunting" was published in "Contemporary" a few years ago, and it immediately aroused extremely strong debates in the literary circles and among the people. Finally, considering the impact, Lin Weimin decided to keep this work for a period of time, and wait until ten years after it was published before publishing it.

"At that time, there were really few people who saw it. No one thought that you would make the decision not to publish it. I just started working at that time, and I was usually busy. I didn't buy that issue of "Contemporary". Later, I borrowed it from my classmates. watch.

You don’t know, many people wanted to read your novel at that time, but the “Contemporary” outside was sold out long ago. Several juniors from our school magazine got together and printed hundreds of copies with the mimeograph equipment used to print the school magazine Your "Hunting" can be regarded as meeting the needs of the students. "

When Xi Chuan talked about this incident, he had a look of recalling the past, and there was a lot of pride in it.

In Lin Weimin's heart, he just wanted to complain that Yan University students openly pirated books. Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?

After meeting and exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Weimin and Xi Chuan finally got to the point.

Before coming here, Xi Chuan had already known the news that the Guowen Society would publish a collection of obscure poems, but he couldn't help being excited when he heard it from Lin Weimin.

Although Lin Weimin said that Haizi's poems would be published, it did not hinder Xichuan's happiness.

Misty poetry has gone through nearly 80 years. Since the mid-[-]s, publishing houses have gradually been willing to publish the works of poets, including publications such as "People's Literature". In the past few years, they also published poems by Shu Ting and others. , but the meaning represented by Guowen Society is different after all.

The fact that a work can be published by Guowenshe largely means that the author has been accepted by the mainstream literary circle, and it also means that the quality of the work has reached a certain level and has been recognized.

"I called you here this time mainly because I heard that Haizi's posthumous works were sorted out by you, so our Chinese Society cannot publish his works without your help."

Xi Chuan said: "After Haizi left, it was originally Yihe and I who were in charge of sorting out his works. In fact, Yihe was mainly doing this work. He worked hard for this matter. I really didn't expect him to leave so suddenly. ..."

When Xi Chuan said this, the expression on his face was full of loneliness.

He, Haizi and Luo Yihe have a close relationship, and everyone is talented. They joined the poetry movement together. In the middle and late 80s, when Misty Poetry declined, they used their talents to inject new vitality into this school of poetry, and became Post Misty Poetry Representatives of the period.

But no one would have imagined that the Three Musketeers left two of them within a few months, and both died young, which is a blow to Xi Chuan.

After he got out of his depressed mood, he said to Lin Weimin: "It's a great thing that the Guowen Society can publish Haizi's works. I believe he will be happy if he knows about it. Tell his family, after I finish talking to them later, I will trouble the agency and Haizi's family to discuss the issue of the manuscript fee."

"One thing doesn't bother the two masters, please help me pass it along. The manuscript fee standard can be paid according to 8% royalties. As for the number of prints, it is not yet determined."

Xi Chuan was overjoyed when he heard that royalties would be used to pay for the manuscript.

Due to the special genre of poetry, when it is published or published, the standard of manuscript fees is often far from that of novels and prose.

If the National Literature Society wants to share the royalties, it has nothing to do with the number of words or lines of the poems, but should divide the money according to the number of prints. This is of course beneficial to the author.

"Mr. Lin, I thank you on behalf of Haizi's family." Xi Chuan got up and bowed to Lin Weimin.

Haizi was born in a rural area, and since he was a child, he has been a supernatural power in ten miles and eight villages. Later, he was admitted to Yanda University at the age of 15. After graduating in 83, he was assigned to China University of Political Science and Law.

Life should have been bright, and his family had high hopes for him, but they never thought that he would leave this world in such a way.

Haizi is gone, but he still has his parents in the countryside.

If his collection of poems can be published, the proceeds can also help his parents spend their old age peacefully.

"There's nothing to thank. If we publish other people's works, can't we still not pay the manuscript fee?" Lin Weimin said with a smile.

Then he brought Xi Chuan to the office of the poetry group.

"Mr. Mo, this is the poet Xi Chuan. He has been sorting out Haizi's poems in the past two years. This time we are going to publish Haizi's poetry collection. I specially invited him to be our consultant. I will leave the poetry collection to you in the future." The two connected."

After introducing Mo Wenzheng and Xi Chuan to get to know each other, and the work was done, Lin Weimin was ready to go back to the office.

When he walked to the door, he met Li Xin coming out of the office. When he saw Lin Weimin, Li Xin said, "Mr. Lin, I was just looking for you!"

"What's wrong? What's the matter?" Lin Weimin asked.

(End of this chapter)