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ABSENCE
ABSENCE
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Absence”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Absence” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay traces a nine-line descent from extinguished light and blankness through the body’s attempted escape to the failure of perception, reading the poem alongside the preceding “Purple.”
ESSAY
ESSAY
