评论家张清华堪称一位多面手,他不但从事文学思潮研究、小说及诗歌评论,而且是一位诗人、散文与随笔作家,在当今的文学界,横跨这几个领域并且都达到了较高水准的应该说为数甚少。这里并不打算从整体上探讨张清华的文学创作或评论,而仅以其新近出版的诗歌批评文集《猜测上帝的诗学》(北京大学出版社2010年6月版)为对象,考察他在诗歌批评方面所做的工作,并由这本书的“文体”谈一个更具普遍性的问题。诗歌批评是对于诗歌的勘探、测量、描述、鉴别,实际上它即使不是比诗歌写作更难的话,至少也并不容易。好的诗歌批评,应该站在与诗歌作者、诗歌作品同等的精神高度,具有相近的精神构 Critic Zhang Qinghua is a versatile practitioner who not only studies literary trends, fiction and poetic criticism but is also a poet, prose and essayist. In today’s literary world, he has reached a high point The standard should be said to a small number. This article does not intend to discuss Zhang Qinghua’s literary creation or commentary as a whole, but only on his recently published collection of poetic criticism “Guess God’s Poetics” (Peking University Press, June 2010) Criticize what has been done and talk about a more general question from the “style” of this book. Poetic criticism is the exploration, measurement, description, identification of poetry, which is, at least, not always easy, if not more difficult than poetry writing. Good poetic criticism should stand on the same spiritual level as poetry writers and poetry works with similar spiritual structures