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Meditations in an Emergency: The Cosmopolitan, the Quotidian, and the Anthropocene Turn in Sun Dong’s 2020 Pandemic Poetry

The Chenjiapu Avant-Garde Bookstore (先锋书店) deck overlooking Wuyi Shan. The village has come to host a number of writer’s studios and, despite being impassable to cars, is being developed as a cultural retreat and eco-tourism destination. This past July I spent two weeks in the Zhejiang mountain village of Chenjiapu translating a set of poems by the Nanjing-based poet Sun Dong. She was able to…