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用生命种诗
—— 序《王学忠诗稿》
(雁翼 撰文 杨虚 英译)
王学忠诗友寄来了他的诗选稿，是我的老友申身挑选的，要我写序。这些诗我多数读过，还是推开工作重读了一遍。申身人好诗也好，是有名的大善人。选编、出版了一辈子别人的诗集，我的一册写故乡的诗集就是他主编的。他的诗艺术尤其是诗语言修养深而厚，使我悟出了许多诗的道理，所以想从他主编的《王学忠诗稿》中多悟出一些东西。
中国诗几千年来的传统之一是“言志”，我信仰这一条，也就特别喜爱王学忠的诗。喜爱他诗行中跳动的那颗劳动者自尊自爱自强自信的灵魂。我们中华民族几千年来，其所以不被种种苦难压倒，奋斗出了今天兴盛的时代，靠的就是这种精神。一个民族也如一个人，抽去这种灵魂，就只剩下一堆肉了，诗也如此。
我想跳出一般写序的套子，不去讲他具体的诗。因为那诗是具体的存在，读者有能力自主的品味。我想说说王学忠这个人，他不是用笔用墨水用纸写诗的，而是用生命种诗的。他的诗，便是他生命的拓片，可以从他的诗作品中看到他的血气、他的淚光、他的骨影、他的魂跃。王学忠原是一个工人，一个中华人民共和国的主人，一人领导阶级的成员，因此他一直辛勤地工作。但他的国家要突围，要奋起，要富强，无可奈何地要有一些人“下岗”。於是，他变成了失业者，忍淚咬牙自立地摆起了地摊，蹬着三轮车贩卖鞋贩卖菜维持着“食为天”的生存条件。为了国家的发展，一切困难都可以忍，不能忍的是有些掌权人的贪污腐败。困难、认愤升华成“忧国忧民”之情绪，诗，便这样形成了。
多么强烈的国家主人翁之感啊！
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Planting Poems with
Life
——A Preface to Selected Peoms of Wang
Xuezhong
Written by Yan Yi Translated by Yang Xu
My poet— friend Wang Xuezhong sent
me his selection of poems, which have been selected
by my old friend Shen Shen, and asked me to write a
preface. These poems I have mostly read, and yet I still
put aside my routine to reread them. Shen Shen is a
good person as well as a good poet, who is know as a
charitable person. He has been all his life compiling
and publishing others collections, and one of my collections
on my hometown has been compiled by him. He is well
versed in poetry, especially in its language, which
enables me to understand more about poetry. Therefore,
I would like to understand more about Selected Poems
of Wang Xuezhong compiled by him.
I believe in one of the traditions of Chinese poetry
for several thousand years, that is , expressing one's
thinking (yanzhi), which accounts for my interest in
Wang Xuezhong's poems. I like the spirit of a laborer
living in his lines with his own pride, love, strife
and confidence. Just in this kind of spirit, our Chinese
nation has been covercoming all sorts of hardships for
thousands of years, achieving today's prosperity. A
nation is like a man. The spirit extracted, it only
has a body of flesh. The same thing is true of poetry.
I want to go beyond the norm of a preface to avoid
talking about his specific poems, which are already
in existence, and reader can taste them by themselves.
I would like to say something about Wang Xuezhong, the
poet who is planting poems with his life instead of
writing them with pen and paper in ink. His poems are
the rubbings of his life, from which we can see his
integrity, his suffering, his inflexibility and his
soul. Wang Xuezhong was a worker, a master of the People's
Republic of China, a member of the working class, who
has ever been working hard. But his nation needs to
break through, to rise up and to strengthen, and has
to have some peolpe laid off their work. Hence, he became
out of job, and began to rearfully peddle, making a
living by selling shoes and vegetables on the tricyle.
He can tolerate anything for the development of his
country, but can never tolerate the bribery and coruption
of some officials. Troubles in living and dignity amount
to his poetic emotion, showing concern for his country
and people.
What an intense sense of being the master of his country!
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