For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao #metoo ourselves and God

ourselves and God

and putting them into a sensible order

avoiding convention and pursuing the lines of desire

to what lives and dies right in front of him

For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao #metoo ourselves and GodIn these melancholy and self mocking poems populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions Jiang Tao presents and dissects a discontent with the state of the world. He employs his profound wit and poetic mastery to explore the passage of time, rural urban migration, change and impermanence, and the difficulties of human communication and connection. Jiang Taos verse is, as translator Josh Stenberg has written, a quintessential expression