刘郎的《闲居集》已在半年前出版,作者逝世也快四年了。长时期来总想写点什么介绍一下这位诗人和他的作品,因为我一直认为他的人与诗都有着一种非比寻常的特色,使人难以忘记。我和他相识,大约是一九四六年前后的事,但更早以前就是他的读者了,三十年来,交往并不密切,只是到了十年动乱的后期,才常常通信和在一起谈天。我们本来都在一个干校里劳动。他后来退休了,回到上海;我那时正背着可怕的“政治包袱”,几乎交亲断绝。就是 Liu Lang’s “Freelander” has been published six months ago, the author died almost four years. Always want to write something for a long time to introduce the poet and his works, because I have always thought that his people and poetry have an extraordinary feature, unforgettable. I met him and was about 1946 but he was an earlier reader. For thirty years, the contacts have not been very close. Only after the end of the ten-year turmoil did we communicate and talk together. . We were all working in a dry school. He later retired and returned to Shanghai. At that time, I was carrying my dreaded “political baggage” almost at last. That’s it