Yuan's LIMERENCE Just Released!

LIMERENCE is Yuan Changming's tenth and newest poetry book. In this short collection, which includes 47 love poems written mostly over the past year or so, the author not only explores but articulates his innermost feeling about a Platonic relationship, a subject which chinese poetry authors have tended to avoid since ancient times.

Limerence, Platonic love, soulmating or whatever else you call it, has always been a common psychological state, but few, and even fewer Chinese, poetry authors have given it a 'full' expression; that's probably why half of the poems included in this chapbook were soon accepted for publication by such as New World Writing, American Media, Private Photo Review, Botsotso, Mediterrean Poetry and the Temz Riview.

LIMERENCE is readily available in both paperback and e.book forms:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09946XHNS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kindle+ebooks+poetry+limerence+yuan+changming&qid=1626024915&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991CGXLJ?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Table of Contents

7    The Thought of You
8.   Stream & Lake
9.    In the Grove
10.  Valentine Gift
11.  Action and Reaction
12.  Chronometry
13.  Oxymoron: Love Is A
14.  Love Lines
15.  Kharma: A Mega Romance
16.  You and Me
17.  The Tuner
18.  First Meeting after 42 Years Separation
19.  At a Dinner Party, Songzi, 2019
20.  Before, Before
21.  Behemoth
22.  The Unspeakable Spoken Out
23.  Confession Delayed by Half a Century
24.  Holistic Relationship
25.  Cardioid Reviewed
26.  Re: Posting
27.  You Are Sure
28.  ‘I Want to See You’
29.  Emoji
30.  Mamihlapinatapai
31.  Yearning for You, I Reach out
32.  Soulmating
33.  The Lovebird
34.  All Day Long
35.  Qi Hong Tea
36.  Vigiling
37.  Unrequited Love
38.  Man’s Last Position in the Battlefield
39.  Ways of Rejuvenating
40.  Cohabitating
41.  Quasi-Omnipotent Lover
42.  What Softens
43.  You Have Never Had Enough of Love
44.  Futuristic
45.  Wooing
46.  Missing Moment
47.  Craving
48.  Star & Butterfly
49.  Love Dose: A Sensual Sonnet
50.  Foreshadowing
51.  How I Wanna
52.  Screenshotting by a Weixin/Wechat Monitor: An Apolitical Poem
53.  Each Time

yuan's lit endeavours: 3 july 2021

1. got 11 acceptances in march, 17 in april, 15 in may and 6 in jun from online and/or print magazines including tuesday, xavier rev, flinthills rev, meniscus lit j, welter, borderland and tint j;

2.  on 31 mar, Poetry Pacifc Press released via kindle (traditional chinese) my mom's memoirs Ordinary Life, Ordinary Story《平凡人生，平凡故事》at https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/%E5%8A%89-%E7%91%9C-ebook/dp/B08ZJS7SHG/ref=zg_bsnr_935038_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HKW8JQPWTZJZ02FVKQ5X

3. on 22 april, PP Press release via kindle (traditional chinese) my My Chinese Concerns 《忧华集》, a collection of flash blogpostings about chinese culture and chinese personality at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09348KQG5;

4. on 27 april, PP Press released via kindle (traditional chinese) my first and only poetry collection in chinese Selected Poems of Yuan Changming 《袁昌明诗选》   at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B092TRSGXM/ref=cm_r_oth_apl_glt_NSVBPJ22VYQKBS9G4;

5. on june 11, the results of canada's 44th national magazine awards were officially released, meaning that my work as a juror was formally completed, while all the background information on the jury released at the same time https://magazine-awards.com/en/2021/05/04/2021-national-magazine-awards-jury/;

6. on 16 jun, PP decided to publish via kindle (traditional chinese) dr Li Gongbo's book Nonsense 《胡说八道》by the end of october, which is a collection of mini essays about ways of thinking, as well as about the spiritual cultivation;

7. for the past couple of years, i have written 38 love poems, about half of which have appeared or are forthcoming in english journals. this is poetic breakthrough on a personal level, since i had been simply unable to write such poetry before the pandemic began in my native province towards the end of 2019, when i met my 'first love' (rather than for my 'first date') for the first time after 42 years of separation without knowing each other's whereabouts. needless to say, all these poems are inspired or written for her.