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「九十年代詩歌」本身是一個由詩人和學院批評家相互配合而構成的詩歌史和學術史概念。......對「九十年代詩歌」的「歷史化」過程，......是為了有效地配合「未來詩學」或「世紀詩學」的建構，因而我們可能就不僅僅是在從事歷史化的研究，而是要對九十年代的詩歌進行解構、重構甚至重述，同時可能還會進行一些價值的判斷和詩學的反思。(摘自：王東東前言)

一行：我發言的題目是「重審九十年代以來的日常生活詩學」

「當代詩的絕境」的形成，不僅來自於當下詩歌體制的壓抑和保守化，而且與1990年代以來中國詩學理論缺乏創造性更新關係密切。我們今天的詩歌寫作和詩學討論，在很大程度上仍然沿襲著所謂「九十年代詩歌」確立的範式。

「九十年代詩歌」構成了一個「漫長的季節」，圍困著今天的新詩寫作。要走出這一「漫長的季節」，首先需要重審和清理「九十年代詩歌（或詩學）」的一些基本詩學概念和命題。在這些詩學概念中，「日常生活」一詞是最具影響力且持續支配著當下詩歌寫作的重要概念之一，它不僅是「九十年代詩歌」的基本預設，也幾乎構成了當代詩不同派別、寫法之間的最大公約數。在詩學概念群的結構意義上，「日常生活」也與「九十年代詩歌」的其他詩學概念如「個體寫作」「敘事」「及物性」「中年寫作」「經驗主義詩歌」「口語詩」「民間寫作」等有著千絲萬縷的關係，甚至可以看成是這些概念的共同前提。

「日常生活詩學」在當代詩中主導地位的確立，是由上世紀九十年代初以來的歷史語境促成的。在那一時期中國發生了一場劇烈的社會轉型，深入到了政治、經濟和文化的各個層面，並對中國新詩的寫作狀況產生了直接影響。詩人們似乎是突然發現了「日常生活」的存在，從「八十年代詩歌」所朝向的「遠方」一下子掉轉頭來返回「附近」的尋常巷陌。如果對「九十年代詩歌」以及後續近三十年來的新詩現場進行觀察，我們會發現絕大多數重要詩人都認同並踐行著「日常生活詩學」。歐陽江河在1993年發表的《89後國內詩歌寫作》一文中提出「（寫作）活力的兩個主要來源是擴大了的詞匯（擴大到非詩性質的詞匯）及生活（我指的是世俗生活，詩意的反面）」，明確將「九十年代寫作」定位於對日常生活及其詞匯的征用。西川在《關於詩學中的九個問題》中也認為寫作要呈現「生活的詩意」，並將其理解為詩歌語言首先需要觸及的「真實的花朵」，這是較早的對「及物性」的主張。于堅則在一次訪談中提出「詩歌不僅要表現日常生活的詩意，而且要重建日常生活的神性」。

著名的《下半身宣言》則提出詩歌應追求「肉體的在場感」，亦即返回到一種沒有被「傳統、文化、知識等外在之物」污染的「純粹肉體性」的日常生活之中。這幾篇文章顯然都有「站在日常生活一邊」的詩學主張，盡管取向很不同。而從詩歌文本來看，所謂「九十年代詩歌」的詩人們近三十年來致力於「日常生活書寫」的代表性詩作至少包括：歐陽江河《關於市場經濟的虛構筆記》《快餐館》《時裝店》，于堅《零檔案》，韓東《甲乙》《你的手》，蕭開愚《向杜甫致敬》《內地研究》，黃燦然《奇跡集》，張曙光《公共汽車上的風景》，孫文波《六十年代的自行車》……

這些詩作或詩集體現了詩人們在「日常生活書寫」中的多層面訴求：（1）詩的基礎是日常生活的真實性和具體性；（2）詩歌需要表現日常生活的詩意，亦即其中的神秘性、超驗性（神性）和倫理內容；（3）部分詩人還試圖通過寫作對日常生活進行精神分析、社會學反思或文化批判。

（摘自：漫長的葬禮：「九十年代詩歌」的幽靈與祛魅；作者：王東東 一行 張偉棟 孫基林 吳思敬 等；澎湃新聞 |  2023-07-11【編者按】2023年4月的「21世紀中國新詩的出路與未來」主題論壇上，一行、張偉棟等詩人提出了「當代詩歌的絕境與危難」這一論題，在詩歌界引起很大關注和回響。6月23日，一行、王子瓜、李章斌、馮強、張偉棟、張光昕、曹僧、辛北北、劉潔岷、孫基林、吳思敬等詩人、詩歌批評家在山東大學人文社科青島研究院舉行的會議上延續了這一論題。此次會議由王東東、亞思明主持。本文根據嘉賓們的發言整理而成。整理者：辛北北、常泰寧。）

Comment by Passion for Form on February 20, 2024 at 1:24pm

Take only memories, leave only footprints

Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. – Mark Twain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. – Anthony Bourdain

I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage. – Bob Hope

The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.

Jet lag is for amateurs. – Dick Clark

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Augustine of Hippo

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman

It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction. – Mark Twain

Live your life by a compass not a clock. – Stephen Covey

Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. – Roy M. Goodman

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

Comment by Passion for Form on February 18, 2024 at 7:03pm

It is not down in any map; true places never are

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. – Russell Baker

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. – Mark Jenkins

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – Anthony Bourdain

I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.

Whether it’s with your Dad, your sister, your friend, or your significant other– these travel together quotes are sure to remind you of all the wonderful memories you shared together.

Life is not meant to be lived in one place.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. – Susan Sontag

Young brave divers couple jumping off cliff into ocean

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. – Anthony Bourdain

Friends that travel together, stay together.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.― Michael Palin

Always take the scenic route.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.― Albus Dumbledore

Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

Comment by Passion for Form on February 17, 2024 at 8:52pm

Travel far enough, you meet yoursel

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. – Anthony Bourdain

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.― Jacques Cousteau

Do you love solo travel? If so, these adventure quotes were made just for you. And don’t be afraid to share them with other fellow travelers who don’t mind the occasional solo adventure.

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. – The Dhammapada

Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. ― André Gide

People don’t take trips, trips take people. ― John Steinbeck

Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we ‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.

Eating my way through [or insert city or country here]

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone. – Leonardo DiCaprio

Comment by Passion for Form on February 17, 2024 at 12:19pm

The more I travelled the more I realized

The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.― Sir Richard Burton

I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. ― Bill Bryson

A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. – Pico Iyer

I need six months of vacation, twice a year.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ― Christopher McCandless

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment. ― Sir David Attenborough

Vacation calories don’t count. Right?

Comment by Passion for Form on February 16, 2024 at 1:23pm

Destination: A New Way of Looking At Things.

One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. – Henry Miller

An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.

Just imagine: a smiling woman with camera exploring Valencia

Always say yes to new adventures.

Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? – Walt Whitman

These inspirational travel quotes will remind you of the transformational experience traveling can be. They also look great on a travel mug.

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The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories – Og Mandino

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who is beside you.

It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring! – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

BBN: Be back never.

Comment by Passion for Form on February 15, 2024 at 1:48pm

Traveling is a brutality

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – Cesare Pavese

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.― Isabelle Eberhardt

Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ― Ibn Battuta

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustav Flaubert

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.― Lawrence Block

What we find in a soul mate is not something to tame, but something wild to run with. – Robert Brault

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.― Gustav Flaubert

Comment by Passion for Form on February 14, 2024 at 3:41pm

If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.— Seth Godin

Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – John Green

Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

Life is short and the world is wide. – Unknown

These famous minds knew exactly how addicting travel can be, and we want to share their insights with you.

People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck

The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.― Clara E. Laughlin

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ― Marcel Proust

Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.― Oscar Wilde

So much of who we are, is where we have been. ― William Langewiesche

Comment by Passion for Form on February 13, 2024 at 7:36pm

Travel far enough, you meet yourself

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ― David Mitchell

To Travel is to Live. – Hans Christian Andersen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ― Mark Twain

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

They’re short, they’re sweet, and they’re oh-so-true. These short travel quotes will have you wanting to be back on a beach in no time. Like this one: Hot air balloon above high mountain at sunset

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. – Tim Cahill

Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ― Anita Desai

Work, Travel, Save, Repeat. – Unknown

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. – Susan Heller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ― Helen Keller

Comment by Passion for Form on February 12, 2024 at 10:10am

If you’re twenty-two

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and widely as possible. ― Anthony Bourdai

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures – Lewis Carroll

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.― Dame Freya Madeline Stark

“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. ― Wallace Stevens

Not all those who wander are lost. ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. ― Jack Kerouac

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