People in a Hurry: Poems of a Delivery Boy
by Wang Jibing
About This Novel
The author of this book, Wang Jibing, is a delivery boy who has traveled a total of 150,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to running 15 times along the Great Wall. During the days when he traveled around the city, he saw more people like him who were struggling for survival, including delivery workers, migrant workers, cleaners, and nannies. They rush around in a hurry, but lose their identity: they can neither find a place to stay in the city, and their hometown and parents are constantly moving away. Like a troubadour from the lower class of China, Wang Jibing recorded himself and their embarrassment, as well as his self-esteem as a laborer. He wrote: I also have my own independent country. My boiling blood is my endless river, and my rugged bones are my towering mountains. These verses, written on cigarette boxes and scrap newspapers when in a hurry, are folk songs from the labor scene, full of vitality, rough and sharp. Some were accidentally posted online, triggering unexpected resonance, with a single poem read by as many as 20 million people. This book is the first collection and publication of his poems.
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