Long Pavilion, Short Pavilion

Long Pavilion, Short Pavilion: Selected Poems from Cao Xu's BlogThis poetry collection features selections from the author's works published on his blog over many years, and also includes a number of insightful comments, allowing readers to more deeply understand the emotions and wisdom behind the poems.Cao Xu's poetry flows like a free current of water-unrestrained, following no course but its own heart, elusive and impossible to capture. Through poetry, he seeks to gather those "sheep" scattered along the crossroads of time and emotion-those fleeting thoughts and fragments that have drifted away with the wind and cannot be retrieved. Poetry becomes his way of dreaming and of returning home, infusing the mist and waterscapes of Jiangnan between the lines, nourishing the inspiration deeply rooted in his life. Through his verses, Cao Xu dialogues with nature, feeling the whispers of flowers and plants, the rhythms of insects, and in doing so, pours out his deep affection for family, for life, and for poetry itself.He has spent a lifetime reading poetry, teaching poetry, and writing about poetry, using verse to record the traces of history and of life. For him, poetry is not merely a mode of expression, but a testament to existence and a mark of being. This collection is the echo of his dialogue with the world, with time, and with history-precisely locating his place in this world through the art of poetry.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿--¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿