For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao The Wasteland and ultimately a self whose

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edited by Deborah Alma

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For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao The Wasteland and ultimately a self whoseIn 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