顧城1956－1993

中國當代詩人，作家顧工之子，出生於北京。朦朧詩主要代表人物之一。文革前即開始詩歌創作，早期的詩歌有孩子般的純稚風格、夢幻情緒，用直覺和印象式的語句來詠唱童話般的少年生活。其诗《一代人》「黑夜給了我黑色的眼睛／我卻用它尋找光明」成為中國新詩的經典名句。

GU CHENG 1956–1993

Gu Cheng’s 顾城position in contemporary Chinese poetry remains a mystery despite all the seemingly obvious facts surrounding it. Born in Beijing in 1956, and being the youngest of the “misty” (menglong) poets, Gu Cheng actually got an early start as a writer. His earliest poets collected in the posthumously published Complete Poems of Gu Cheng (Gu Cheng shi quanbian) (Gu 1995) are dated 1964, and his youthful yet stunningly beautiful poem “A Fantasia to Life” (Shengming huanxiang qu) was written in 1971, when Gu Cheng was only fourteen years old. On top of that, Gu Cheng had been labeled as a “fairytale poet” (tonghua shiren) in the 1980, which was derived from the eponymous poem that Shu Ting dedicated to him: You believed in the fairytale you wove 你相信了你编写的童话 So that yourself turned into a blue flower in that fairytale 自己就成了童话中幽蓝的花
(Extracted from New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry edited by Christopher Lupke. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.)