People called Lin Yaode ＂the primary advocator and practitioner of urban literature＂ since he fervently advocated so-called ＂urban poetics＂ in the 1980s. His urban poetics indeed contributed to the formation of the urban poetry trend and set a benchmark for urban poetry as an emerging genre. He cited the poststructuralist theorists, especially Barth, Derrida, and Foucault, in order to gradually construct his urban poetics, and grafted postmodernism into urban poetics from this perspective. Reviewing Lin Yaode's related discourses, this essay investigates three aspects of his urban poetics: the urban epoch, urban textuality, and urban heterotopias.