对于撒拉族诗人韩秋夫的评价常常从这几个层面展开:少年成名的撒拉族诗人,《青海湖》的创办者之一,身陷囹圄长达二十载的“归来”诗人,“西部文学”中的重要诗人~①。文学史家的界定使诗人处在了青海诗歌界的重要位置。对于这位老诗人,2013年出版的个人诗集《向东的长歌》更是对其诗歌创作生涯一次可贵的回顾。 The evaluation of the Salarist Han Qiufu often starts from these aspects: One of the founders of the juvenile-famous Salar poet and “Qinghai Lake” is caught in a 20-year-long “return” poet, The important poet in Western Literature. The definition of literary historians makes the poet in an important position in the poetry community in Qinghai. For this old poet, the personal anthology “Long March to the East” published in 2013 is a valuable review of his poetry career.