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Ouyang Yu’s “New Accents”⁚ A Critical Analysis
https://imranjattala.org/new-accents-ouyang-yu-poem-pdf/
我是黄冈人，幸遇黄冈文：《“惟楚有才，鄂东为最”——试解人才地理中的“黄冈现象”》
http://www.news.cn/20240712/fdfae92c378c40b5a4c7396e17baf080/c.html
Ouyang Yu compared with Patrick White: piss and shit and flatulence
Ouyang Yu and Patrick White both use "low" bodily functions to challenge high-culture pretension and explore the "unlovely" reality of Australian life. While Yu uses these images as a form of post-colonial resistance , White uses them to emphasize human frailty and the groundedness of spiritual experience. Ouyang Yu: Poetry as Excretion Ouyang Yu famously compares poetry to bodily functions—specifically urination and defecation—as a way to strip art of its "sacred" or overly-refined status. A Statement of Resistance: For Yu, poetry is a natural, irrepressible urge that should not be "revised to whiteness" or sterilized by academic standards. The "Ugly Poem": He embraces what critics call "deliberate unloveliness". By linking creativity to bodily fluids, he suggests that literature is as essential, raw, and sometimes offensive as the body itself. Philosophy: He rejects the idea that a writer should be a "precis...
First heard: 'Yoru Cafe Jazz Bossa - I'm Not In Love'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABP6cOLZwA&list=RDATgy&index=27
Welcome back, Bill Evans: 'B Minor Waltz (Official Audio)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnQvxB-jxw&list=RDATgy&index=27
first heard: Boney James - Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo2M4gLL2R4&list=RDATgy&index=27
First heard: Houston Person: 'too late now'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0L1oE1K0uk&list=RDATgy&index=22
New listenings: Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba) (Visualizer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3uWyvo0XGs&list=RDATgy&index=21
New listenings: Stacey Kent - How Insensitive (Lyrics video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT9h4vUz7sQ&list=RDATgy&index=13
New Listenings: John Coltrane - Naima (2020 Remaster) [Official Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPAC6zt_1ZM&list=RDATgy&index=11
何与怀： 国际诗人笔会悉尼大会致辞（中英文）[转载]
国际诗人笔会悉尼大会致辞 （ 2025 年 12 月 7 日） 何与怀（著） 各位尊敬的与会者，女士们先生们，下午好！ 首先，我作为一个在悉尼安居三十年的澳洲公民，热烈欢迎从世界各地到来的在座各位 。澳大利亚是一个美丽平和自由的国家。莎士比亚戏剧《理查二世》（ Richard II ）里有一句名句： “ 天堂之眼眷顾的所有地方 ，对于智者都是避风港和幸福地。 ” 澳大利亚就是 “ 天堂之眼眷顾的地方 ” ，而我们都是 “ 智者 ” 。我也想到宋朝著名诗人苏轼的诗句： “ 此心安处是吾乡。 ” 的确，哪里有自由，哪里就是安身立命的家乡。 第二点，我想简明介绍一下澳华文...
A Claude comment on this article: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-case-for-china-or-a-self-obituary/
This is a profound and deeply personal essay by Ouyang Yu that explores themes of migration, cultural alienation, and the experience of being a Chinese-Australian writer. It's structured as a fragmented "self-obituary," using the recurring character 死 (death) as a divider between sections. Key Themes and Observations: Structural Innovation : The essay uses a collage-like structure, weaving together memories, dialogues, literary references, and philosophical reflections. The recurring death character suggests both the literal deaths of characters and the metaphorical death the author feels living as a perpetual outsider in Australia. Systematic Exclusion : Ouyang documents what he perceives as structural racism in Australian cultural institutions. His friend Potato Flower predicts Chinese Australians "will write us books but will never be allowed to win the Miles Franklin Award, add something to the arts but will never be allowed to win the Archibald Prize." The ...
