《郑敏文集》总序

General Preface to the Collected Works of Professor ZHENG Min

从踏上诗坛的那天起,郑敏就显示了她与同时代诗人的不同,她以哲学为诗歌的底蕴,以人文的感情作为诗歌的经纬,善于在中西文化之间寻求结合点,善于把哲理和思辨融入形象,"使音乐的变为雕刻的,流动的变为结晶的",从而使她的诗歌具有一种里尔克式的深沉的、凝重的雕塑之美。郑敏又是一位重要的诗歌理论家,其诗歌理论著作,凝结着她丰富的诗歌创作实践,贯穿着对宇宙、自然和人的哲学思考,特别是对诗歌创作无意识领域的开掘、对诗歌内在结构的研究、对于德里达解构主义的关注与诗歌语言问题的探讨、对新诗应当继承古代诗歌优秀传统的思考等,均对当代诗学界有深远影响。《郑敏文集》的出版,为中国现代文学史提供了一份供研究分析的完整的案例,让我们看到在一个大变动的时代里,一位诗人,一个正直的中国知识分子的命运和奋斗的历史。

ZHENG Min has shown her difference from her contemporary poets ever since the day she composed her first poem. She bases her poems on philosophy and takes her humanistic affection as the point of departure for the composition. She is skillful at finding out an interface between the Chinese and Western cultures and merging philosophical reasons into images, which ＂enables the musical to transform into the sculptu/＇al and the dynamic into the crystal＂; and her poems hence read like the Rilkean style： a beauty with profundity and dignifiedness. ZHENG Min is an important poetry theorizer as well. Her works on poetry theory suggest rich creative practice, and are filled with philosophical thinking about the uni- verse, the nature, and the human beings. In particular, her explorations have a far--reaching influence upon the current Chinese poetry in the unconscious field of poetry creation, in the internal structures of poetry, in her attention to Derrida＇s De--construction and the poetic language, and in her inheritance of the merits of the traditional Chinese poetry. The layout of the Collected Works has set up a perfect exemplar for the theoretical study, and helped us clearly see the fate of a poet, a decent Chinese intellectual and her life--long struggle in an revolutionary epoch full of ups and downs.