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BIOGRAPHY

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Biography”

From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton

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This page presents a close-reading essay on “Biography” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.

The essay examines what it means for a life to be read, following six states of reading through biography’s intrusions, the limits of language and memory’s editing of experience.

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