Moon Shines on Black Tiles

Poems of Luo Xiaoling, the author of Moon Shines on Black Tiles, are lyric and metaphorical. They are a combination of white sketch, confession and daydream. They are self-portraits, landscapes, personal records, home exploration and spiritual archives. Her poems have a motive of retrospective pursuit and deep dialogue, which is the mutual activation of personal memory and spatial and local knowledge. Her poems are restrained, implicit, and have a more prominent ability to symbolize details. Instead of pushing force usually in ordinary female writing, they open up a multi-level spatial structure. This just restores the poet's memory function and the ability to rediscover things. It is also a wake-up of spiritual self in the secular world.