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BODY OF THE WORLD
BODY OF THE WORLD
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Body of the World”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Body of the World” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows the wooden carving, enduring teeth and predatory dream-images to examine a world-body that neither properly lives nor dies, and a self whose existence depends on being dreamed.
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