‘Self publishing' (updated 24/09/2021)

By Ouyang Yu


今天（2021.9.24号）Chaos值班，选了这首诗，有几个特评，特选载如下：

Josephine 特评如下：

一位自助出版的实践者，在努力为自助出版正名。

在这个出版行业被资本垄断，知识产权被人为修筑壁垒的时代，人类最自然本真的表达被控制，雨点被捂住了嘴巴，溪流被戴上了口罩，自由被开了价。

即便是独树一帜的自主/助出版，在叛经离道渴求突破壁垒的挣扎下，也下意识地抄袭了资本低劣肮脏的欲望，自己网织了一堵墙，它轻盈如蝉翼，却冰冷如钢枪。


 任锡平教授特评如下:


这首，管且称散文诗，诗中描述，并肯定了自我出版之诗人风骨。诗人有充分的理由不想让别人为他说话，( dont want someone else to speak for you)，诗人自己的思想，是不会因任何人而改变的，那些伟人也是这么做的。

诗中还以自然现象（rain，creek，birds）的形态、行为，称作自我出版的一种方式，以表明诗人非常崇尚自由的思想。

为此，诗人最后，不管 international court 判决自我出版是 “lifetime imprisonment， 还是deathtime”，诗人却认为：“雨，再次自我出版了，(now，the rain self publishing again)”，意味深长。

整首诗，思路开阔，联想丰富，个性独特。


bei 特评如下:


Self publishing 的评论


其实不太会评论，所以还是“硬写”了点。

专门上网上搜了关于自我出版，发现了https://self-publishingschool.com，尽管是自我出版，却跟这首诗歌提到的不一样。

个人的话，我还是会把这首诗从出版方面的角度以及“自我出版”这种想法两方面来看。

从个人有限的出版方面的知识，整体上我同意且支持这种约定细节的一种“社会行为”（不晓得对不对，但是出版在国内似乎一点都不好玩）。但不怎么认可目前国内出版这种“局限性”，所以“自我出版”似乎就把思维拉倒了思考“出版”本质的意义。

从“自我出版”偏诗意的角度来看，很有趣的就是将“出版”本身变得更加丰盈，从诗的角度，所有东西的本身很重要。可是我就在问自己，边界在哪里？该如何认真？出版的那种限制会无聊，可处处真实的存在？



谢谢chaos邀请哦，也谢谢这首诗让我的思考中。


潞璐特评：


“自我出版”这个词很新鲜，诗歌中也用了大量的例子来说明何为（自我出版）。所以从某种程度上讲，这首诗是解释“自我出版”的词条，内容相当丰富，自然界的自我出版以及人类的自我出版全包含在内。


另外，也有幸现场听过诗人朗诵这首诗，真的给观众带来的笑果非常多。所以，在生动形象的基础上，这首诗又不乏幽默。我还特别喜欢这首诗的结尾，真的做到了自然收尾，很棒！


简言之，这首诗很“伟大”～


大宇评论：出版自我


这是一篇未来世界的诗人对现俗的宣言和挑战，作为诗学，乃至艺术界创造性的人物，诗人所表达的自由囊括宇宙四海，横时竖空，包括万象。在瞬间，人，诗人，诗，都只是一叶扁舟，噢不，是编舟，出版只是滑翔的形式，您的领域及突破的天空，无几人能及了，这也从侧面得到一个不诗而理学的结论——自我出版，已经逐步完善到自我天空的境地。如果说，过去的雨代表着昨日的文明，这些我们骨子里仍然继承和流淌的孤独血液，那么未来的每一场雨，我们都能感受到，遥远大洋外，那颗独自闪耀的地球之最雨滴。


我本人的自评如下：


现在写自评：不知道有些人怎么辣么对钱感兴趣，而且乸么因钱而下错误判断和结论，如艺术比文学好，文学不来钱，等等。这么一来，看来最好的人生解决办法，就是生一个钱人，从生到死，取之不竭，用之不尽——好了，不多说。今天值班人找到的这首，是我大约十几年前在上班时间写的。我工作的那个单位还真不错，每周周薪有1500澳元，而且几乎无事可干，除了写诗，就是查资料。干了不多久，看到一条信息，是到堪培拉三家大学住校计划，每家一个月三千，比这少多了。我申请，拿到了，去了。说岔了，回来说这首诗。当时是上班写的，后来发表了，还收入年度最佳诗选（英文的）。从头到尾写完，一字未改，爽！发表时也一字未改，爽！后来还被请去参加年度澳大利亚文学年会，作为开幕式的朗诵诗。完后晚宴时，有一大学文学教授举酒当面问我：知道当今最好的诗人是谁吗？我说：不知道。她说：It’s you。好了，你看，话说多了，就走腔了，又招人妒、招人恨、招人沉默、招人唾弃了！赶快调脸不看，赶快删！感谢值班艺术家的好眼力！不是我投的，是她在一大堆中挑的。哎，怪了哈，搞艺术的怎么会挑诗呢？不是艺术的钱比文学的多吗？


谢谢


自评2：这是从我下面这本书里拍照下来的。这本书——对不起，我又要弄得一些人嫉妒了。我从诗人那儿获得的嫉妒，已经够我十生受用了——因为最近法国海外省留尼汪的一家大学，把这本书作为研究生的教材了，找我买书一一不是我主动找别人的啊一一我哪有啊，已经绝版了（高兴吧？），出版社已经关门了（高兴+1吧？），但另有一家出版社接活，马上要出新版（不高兴吧！）（见书图如下）：





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