《向他们涌来》是诗人宇向在国内正式出版的第二本诗集，主要收录了她自2010年以来的大部分诗歌。宇向是一个独树一帜的诗人，写作的特质禀赋使她不拘泥于简单的形式与语言指向，她更专注于对精神灵魂的触及与深入，以其独特的鲜活的持续前进的方式梳理着时代、生活与内心的繁杂材料。尤其近些年来，她所涉及的场域和范畴更加广泛深远，经验更加充沛，情感内敛浑厚并仍持续着不凡的生命锐度。无疑，对于当代诗歌，宇向始终保持着激情与活力。

一本忧郁、柔媚与孤绝的诗集。

Considered a representative figure of the post-1970s Chinese poets, Yu Xiang is part of a new generation of contemporary Chinese poets following in the footsteps of the "Obscure" (otherwise known as "Misty") poets and the post-"Obscure" writers. If identification is indeed a shadow act of figuration, Yu Xiang does not care for any post-age or post-modern label. Her response toward specific social or political realities in China during these recent years differ from her predecessors' during their respective epochs, in the sense that she does not necessarily depict them from an oblique stance. She does not merely dwell in ambiguities, contradictions and ambivalence. Nor does she present her work as a purely journalistic understanding of the downtrodden: impoverished villagers, traumatized mothers who lost children during the collapse of "tofu-skin" schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Instead, she depicts characters with a comparative eye—not just as a witness—but also from the starting point of having "felt a feeling," an epiphany. Unafraid of going near politically radioactive realities and histories, Yu Xiang is least interested in scoring ideological points, or telling "her" side of a narrative, be it as an artist or a social critic.