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"A Lonely King" is a self-selected collection of poems by Chongqing poet Li Haizhou in recent years. This book contains 47 poems in 5 volumes, followed by an interview and a commentary. "A lonely king" symbolizes the poet himself, expressing emotions in loneliness, shuttling in language, imagining wantonly, and playing with loneliness. These poems are all the product of free personality, showing the poet's unrestrained talent and romance, and he enjoys sleepwalking through the images of the East and the West, the classical and the modern, the mountain city and the south of the Yangtze River. He is quite accomplished in the purity of poetry art.

The book consists of five volumes, including Li Haizhou's most representative poetry works in recent years, and is accompanied by two critical articles on Li Haizhou's poetry. Most of the works included in the book were published in the form of poems in important domestic literary publications such as People's Literature, Writers, October, Mountain Flowers, Stars, and Poetry Monthly. As a representative poet of China's "post-70s generation", Li Haizhou's poems are famous for their aesthetic nobility, philosophical context, imaginative weirdness, and elegant poetic quality. He has made great contributions to contemporary poetry in terms of theme development, language expression techniques, and text creation.