For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao The Wasteland polylogues and borrowed words build

polylogues and borrowed words build into a precarious self-assemblage

we pass through the balm of landscape

from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered his own

“Copley’s work invites the reader to inhabit an alternative reality – one where we should expect the unexpected and where the border between the living and the dead is permeable

and ultimately a self whose elements materialise through language

For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse by Jiang Tao The Wasteland polylogues and borrowed words buildIn 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