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Stealing
from Turn Around Like No Action
by James Tian
FOREWORD
Tianyu is a. model of devotion to the practice of poetry. Writing poems for him is life—sustaining, even life—creating. It creates the place in which he fully has experienced his experience.
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I understand the love feeling expressed by him in this collection is not only the love that a loved and beloved has towards each other rather it could be love related to any human relationship.
You're always like me, And everything about me, And like all your half buried in Howers.
It isn't the land of dawn, May you be tenderly treated,
Wish I can blossom all the way. (^Tomorrow, Please be Gende")
He concerns with the essence of living;
Beautiful turn takes tomorrow away. But it does not carry the memory of the past. Let a. heart smile calmly, Don't let luck waste your meeting. ("Turn around Like No Action
Direcdy expressing the poet's own voice and sentiments is related to his first voice, or the voice talking to himself
Forgetting your old seHl
With silence in Hrmness.
Find new breakthroughs,
Finding new spots of Eght,
Allow yourself to share the joy. ("Pink Christmas")
His words seem to illuminate human universe with pure existence and knowledge through his daily life. The universe is both real, actual, tangible, but beyond comprehension. In a stream of consciousness and energy, he tries to create or destruct and lasting quality of the spoken word. All people have divine souls, so they should tolerate, respect, and love one another. Tianyu speaks of his soul as a lover. Change must be necessary for renewal, which will come. He could never understand why his poems create such a. sensation. Not in the ideas and views of the universe, but in the fbcus on his Efe and coming death. Nonetheless, this