The first poet to write in his native Taiwanese after the war, Xiang Yang published books of Taiwanese poetry during the period of martial law and took a forceful stand against the surrealism that prevailed in Taiwan's literary circles during the early 1970s. Marching to the beat of his own drummer, he created a unique style of poetry in the form of ten-line poems.
這位在戰後首開以台語寫詩的本土詩人，不但在戒嚴時期出版台語詩集，並在 1970 年代初，力排詩壇超現實主義浪潮，自鑄格律，以「十行詩」奠定詩風。