目前,无论是在大陆、台湾或海外,新诗的读者都为数不多。而在大陆且日渐减少,此乃不争的事实。人们都承认,如今在市场经济的生活中,文学受到娱乐文化的排挤,而诗的情况则最为严重。但是,我们仍然有必要认真讨论如何在知识者中间争取尽可能多的新诗爱好者,保留这一严肃文学的阵地,并使之在下一世纪中在世界文学(或“总体文学”)上占据其本应有的地位。 At present, there are only a few readers of new poetry, whether in mainland China, Taiwan or overseas. In mainland China and declining, this is an indisputable fact. People all admit that literature is now crowded out of entertainment culture in today’s market-economy life, and poetry is the most serious. However, it is still necessary for us to seriously discuss how to win as many neo-poetry enthusiasts among intellectuals as possible and preserve the position of this serious literature and to occupy it in world literature (or “general literature”) in the next century This should be the status.