I'm just waiting for boredom

Yang Chuan's poetry collection is divided into two volumes. Volume one is "Poems Written in Mainland China", which contains 26 poems and is a record of the poet's life in China.
The second volume, "Poems Written in Johor Bahru", contains 33 poems, which are a sampling of the poet's emotions in Johor Bahru.

Yang Chuan's self-description:
Writing poetry has been a lifelong endeavor for me. Now that I think about it, even though my life is ordinary and unremarkable, writing poetry has allowed me to find history in real life.

Famous Malaysian Chinese writer Chen Die wrote a preface recommending:
From the 1980s to the present, poetry has been Yang Chuan's life's sustenance, even his life itself. Taiwanese literary critic Yang Zhao once said that poetry is a requiem, and in my opinion, at least, poetry is the music that brings peace to Yang Chuan's soul.
Forty years of swimming in the sea of ​​poetry and words, half a lifetime of migrating from city to city, Yang Chuan has traveled from China to overseas, returned and then left again, now settled in southern Taiwan. He no longer writes novels, nor prose, but his poems, which are much shorter than his novels or prose, seem to have shifted from the passionate and unrestrained writing of the past to the restrained and cold style of the present.

Yang Chuan

His real name is Yang Qiping. He grew up in Malacca and later settled in Johor Bahru.
Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Oklahoma, USA, Master of Chinese from the University of Malaya, and PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Nanjing Normal University.
He used to be a senior lecturer and director of the Chinese Department at the Johor Bahru Teachers’ Education College.
Part-time lecturer at Open University of Malaysia and University of Kuala Lumpur.
Zhu has a collection of essays entitled "On Contemporary Mainland and Malaysian Chinese Women's Novels", a collection of novels entitled "The Call of the Red Dust", and a collection of poems entitled "Unfinished Journey" and "Searching for Trees".

After the thunderous silence, after all the green mountains, the poems have aged, but is the chivalrous spirit still there? —Chen Die's preface to Yang Chuan's poetry collection "What I Wait For Is Only Boredom"

Volume 1: Writing Poetry in Mainland China
• No. 200 Ninghai Road
• Nanjing Life: For You
• How hot it was during that time
• Ruthless Solution
• One winter night
• People, People (Impressions of Mainland China)
• I fell asleep to the sound of Su Tong reading
• I write poetry in mainland China
• Desire·Seasons
• Doorman
• November 2005, went to Xi'an
• Beijing Box
• Furniture about time and memory
• Man in Room 303
• Wandering outside the door
• Farewell to Dinglou
• Life in mainland China
• So, I returned to Malaysia

Volume 2: Writing Poetry in Johor Bahru
• Writing poetry in Johor Bahru
• Page 39
• Light
• Fake love poems
• Where
• Two Improvisations
• Amnesia (for Dad)
• Yang Family Lai (for my mother)
• Disenchantment
• Childish
• Common people
• Let's talk, Johor Bahru
• big river
• letter
• Flying
• It's like a city is slowly falling
• Summer heat
• corridor
• Record a city
• Hell Transformation
• Spoken
• Epitaph
• Gallery images
• Suspicions similar to patriotism
• The jellyfish continues to swim by
• Postman
• Dogs on the streets of Istanbul
• Declaration
• Johor Bahru drunkenness
• Live
• epidemic
• Alternating
• All I'm waiting for is boredom

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