“Che Qianzi’s poems are hilariously understated acts of sabotage. Hence, ‘No Poetry.’ Inclinations toward descriptions and syllogism stutter into nugatory notes “that flow out of hell” or are abandoned, wisdom statements (“Staying awake to the truth”) are severed at the root, and slogans rendered as self-cannibalizing knock-offs. A kingdom of creatures–chickens, ants, spiders, crows, roosters, a horse peering through its right eye with its left eye, etcetera–address “the pain of being human.” Ironically, Che Qianzi’s poems are not what they seem because everything in Che’s poems is just what it is.”    

–Forrest Gander, 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Be With, and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets