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"A Man in a Hurry: A Delivery Man's Poems" Author: Wang Jibing Taiwan Straits Publishing House's Weekly Hot List of Literary Books
"A Man in a Hurry: A Delivery Man's Poems" Author: Wang Jibing Taiwan Straits Publishing House's Weekly Hot List of Literary Books
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The author of this book, Wang Jibing, is a delivery man who has traveled a total of 150,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to running 15 times along the Great Wall. During his days of shuttling between cities, he saw more people who were struggling for survival like him, delivery men, migrant workers, cleaners, and nannies. They were in a hurry and rushed around, but they lost their identities: they could not find a place to stay in the city, and their hometown and parents were getting farther away.
Like a wandering poet from the bottom of China, Wang Jibing recorded his own and their embarrassment, as well as his self-esteem as a worker. He wrote: I also have my own independent country, my boiling blood is my endlessly flowing rivers, my jagged bones are my towering mountains.
These poems, written on cigarette boxes and waste newspapers in the gaps between rushing to finish, are folk songs from the work site, full of vitality, rough and sharp. Some of them were accidentally uploaded to the Internet, triggering unexpected resonance, and a single poem has been read by as many as 20 million people. This book is the first collection of his poems.
About the Author
Wang Jibing is a delivery man and poet. In between his delivery work, he used poetry to record the exhaustion of himself and others. He has created more than 3,000 poems, and People in a Hurry has selected the best of them and published them for the first time. Among them, People in a Hurry has been widely circulated online, with 20 million readers, and has been praised by readers as "the poem of a real worker."
