Illusion Zero: Poetry by Chen Yijin

★ 125 poems, 125 ways poets sense the subtle phantom limbs of the world★ Winner of the 14th Huazong Literary Award - Malaysian Chinese New Poetry Jury Award!
★Recommended with a preface by the famous poet Xing Yiwang★ The highly anticipated poet of the ninth generation!

There are always unsatisfactory beginnings, when I stop guessing at zero. At the beginning of a game of hide-and-seek, words hide, piercing through cracks in the plain homework book, and go their separate ways...
——<Zero Illusion>

It's as if an ancient road has been gently carved open. It's the path where consciousness once lost itself. The book opens its mouth listlessly, attempting to ensnare an overly lucid soul. I close my eyes, warding off all temptations, and squint the words before me into a spell of self-defense.

——《Indulgence for Youth》

Chen Yijin

Born in Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia in 1993, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kampar, Perak, and is currently a master's student in the Department of Chinese Literature at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.

3 [Preface] Incarnation / Xing Yiwang
13 [Prologue] Illusion Zero

A Palace of Sunshine-Deprived Years

16 Electric fan
17 The sadness that cannot be escaped
18 That Night Was Like Fire
19 Living in a Fishbowl
20 Dock
21 Heart Detective
22 Let go
23 The so-called four seasons like summer
24 Dangerous Shadow
25 Bottleneck
26 Pick a small lamp
27 Angels Return Home: The Lost Malaysia Airlines MH370 Incident
28 Corridor
29 The Pillow
30 Shore
32 Selfie
33 Discrete
34 If
36 The corridor with wind still in it
37 Transmigration
38 Ending

Part 2: Innocence and Falsehood

40 The Story of the Wooden Horse
41 First Taste of Red Wine
42 Signing
43 Swing
44 Double Ninth Festival is very light
45 Aging Micro-words
46 In the morning light
47 The Old Man and Sigh
48 Imagine a Family History
50 Description of Growth
51 We were friends when we were young
52 tree trunk
53 A Girl Grows Up
54 Buy a house
55 leaves
56 Leaving Home
57 A Strange Ceremony: Watching College Students Graduating
59 After returning to school
60 Return to River City

Collection of Three Books on Immersion in Desire

62 That day you lay flat
63 Meet a Pretty Girl in the Elevator
64 and a girl
65 When the wife discovered that the mistress could dance ballet
66 Scenic Route
67 Double Lock
68 Dirty Words
69 Roots
70 The concrete manifestation of love
71 Pray for Rain
74 Your love is broken
75 Virgoid meteor shower
76 The Pseudoeconomics of Picking Up Girls
77 Seven Bad Arguments About Breasts Promoting Patriarchy
79 Confession of Photophobia
80 Kiss
81 Beautiful Figure
82 Cutting into the Empty Cake
83 dance steps
84 Fire on the Shoulder Blade

Ji Sihuo puts on boxing gloves

86 Celebration
87 People who love to buy brand-name goods
88 Answer a bloody math problem
89 The Strangeness of my country’s Economy in Poetry
90 Reflections on Reading Books from Mainland China
91 Luggage with legs
92 She is a human
93 fingers
96 My Malay Name – Thoughts on Getting a New ID Card
98 Desire of the Accuser
100 Transition
103 Bending the Back: Reflections on Witnessing Illegal Logging
104 Search

Volume 5 Sweet and Sour Spell

106 First Love
107 All Night
108 just
109 Old-fashioned
110 Lighthouse
111 quarrel
112 and later
113 Move Out
114 Complete Difficulty
115 Last Night's Rain
116 Halloween
117 Love
118 Do You Not Want to Get Married?
120 The Uses of Old Photos
121 Typhoon Day in the Microphone
123 Ruthless Call
124 Encountering an Unnamed Love Letter
125 lens
126 Flowers in the Painting
127 The pause of youth imprisons you
128 Snuggle

Collection of Six Eye-Blocking Methods

130 Leading Edge
131 Self-Metaphor
132 Indulgence for Youth
135 The Epic of Time Killing
140 classroom
141 Rebirth Castle
143 I think I have seen a living Husband-waiting Stone
145 Serenade
146 Random Thoughts
147 One-sided
148 Staying in bed
149 Treadmill
150 Thoughts on Gaining Weight
151 Birthday
152 will
153 Cockroach Terror Attack
154 The Legend of the Flying Mosquito
155 Timing - Recording the Rain on Every Wednesday in Jinbao
156 Jinbao Old Street
157 Course Selection
158 Escape from Dream
159 Farewell
160 Mahjong Battle
161 Short Poetry Training Manual
163 Love Letters from the Post-Date Love Period
164 When Poetry is No Longer a "Vulgar" Genre: Before and After Marriage
165 Who are you?
167 old mobile phone
168 cups

169 [End Poem] The Gecko's Prophecy
170 [Postscript] The Hanged Singer