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BIRD BOOK
BIRD BOOK
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Bird Book”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Bird Book” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the identification of book, bird and body, tracing how reading becomes an act of injury while tinnitus turns writing into an involuntary bodily process.
ESSAY
ESSAY
