Nocturne

Xing Yiwang's poetry collection is divided into four volumes: "One Body", "Delivery", "Elegy", and "Nocturne".

The poet describes himself in the postscript:

This little book contains eulogies and elegies I have written to my parents, relatives, friends, strangers, myself, and others who are not me (the chapters in the fourth volume have been set to music). It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that it is my personal collection of elegies.

These elegies are fragmented fragments of life, intermittent farewells and regrets—a stark contrast to Rilke's celestial, transcendental, and integrated summary of life. I hope they can be as plain and sincere as possible, free of exaggeration and fabrication, but I can't force it. Let them be gathered together with the accumulation of my heart and the years. It can also be regarded as another clumsy confession of my life, like a book with no place to start, no meaning, and no address.

Xing Yiwang

Born in Seremban, Malaysia in 1978. Originally from Hainan, he does not speak Hainanese. He graduated from New Era College and Feng Chia University with a Master's degree in Chinese. He holds a Master's degree in Chinese from Southern University College. He has taught at various schools, including Seremban High School, Bohai Middle School, and Anshun San Min Independent High School.

Author of poetry collections:
The Rusty Iron Age (Dajiang Publishing House, 2006)
Love Songs: Seventy Sonnets and Two Long Poems (Dajiang Publishing House, 2007)
Family Letters (Youren Publishing House, 2009)
Salt: A Collection of Short Poems and Modern Haiku (Youren Publishing House, 2011)
Spiral Terminal: A Collection of Short Poems (Dajiang Publishing House, 2012)
Pharisees' Love Song (Brown Publishing, 2012)
Adverbs: Notes on Prose Poetry (Manyan Bookstore, 2013)
Xingxing (Dahe Culture Publishing House, 2016)
Background Music (Southern University College, 2017)
Transparent Dancer: A Picture Book Poem of Little Naked People (Dahe Culture Publishing House, 2018)
Ink and Moonlight: Selected Poems of Xing Yiwang 1998-2013 (Youren Publishing House, 2022)

General Preface to the Nanyang University Hongyi Series 9
How to Read Xing Yiwang's Poetry Collection "Nocturne" ◎ Wang Runhua 11

Volume 1: One by One 29
Hand in Hand 30
Changzai: Send XMC 31
Always 32
Ontology 33
Scorn: Send LQH 34
Xingtian 35
Kuafu 36
Sound Wave 37
Don't want 38
39
Dance Step 40
New Year's Eve
black fire 42
Abandoned Baby 43
Eternal Development 44
Let's Transform 45
First Person Third Person 46
Life Downgrade 47
Learning Waste 48
Israel and Palestine 49
Israel and Palestine: Wax cold 50
Thought: Send Myanmar Girl 51
Meaning: Send AIN 52
Regret 53
Same 54
Past 55
Test score: 56
Destiny number 57
A few bad words 59
NEET self-proclaimed 67
Embrace 71
Uterus of Heaven and Earth 72
The glory of leaving 73
Each Moon 74
Paradise 75

Part 2: Delivery 81
Talking about disappointment 86
Now: Send ZYS 90
Laugh 93
Light Information 96
Nian Beast in the Mirror 99
The Taste of Vagina 102
We Only Have One Hell 105
Strange Egg 107
Nonsense verse 110
Instant Noodles Fu 112
Thing 114
Only the first sentence is realistic.
Why do birds sing in the morning?
Love Relationship 123
Loneliness Between 124
Unrelated: The connection between cloth and the fullness of the void 125
Childhood Piano Lesson 128

Part Three: Eulogy Eulogy 133
Horse, Dream and Tiger 137
First: Send LGX 141
Heaven moves forward, He Naijian 145
Lights: Learning of ZW's death in Malacca 147
Spring and Autumn Blood Ink: Letter to YM 148
Wildcat's Death 151
Still Sadness: Letter to YPA 154
Laughing and Tearful: Send WMD 156
Roadside melon: Sending my second aunt 157
To collect and hang up the line: send LFS 158
Childhood Weekends: Sending to Uncle HSH 161
Hainanese people like me who don't speak Hainanese and don't live on Hainan Island 162
A post-Nanyang guy wrote about his feelings on June 4th 165
Qingming Festival 171
Traces: Dreamwork 172
Ding Fengbo: Send MTX 173
Searching for the Dawn Thousands of Miles Away 174
No doubt: Send to my father 178
Same year: Sent to father 179
Finally: Send to Mother 183
Spring Outing: Reunion with Brothers and Sisters 189

Volume 4: Nocturne Cradle 195
Nocturne 196
Lament 197
Umbrella 198
String 199
Widow 201
Ghost 202
Sky Lantern 204
Fireworks 205
Hymn 209

Postscript: No Postscript 210

Additional song: Landscape 211

Appendix: Date of first draft of work 212

Appendix: List of other poems set to music 217