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BRECHT’S LAST QUESTION

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Brecht’s Last Question”

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

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This page brings together the original interpretive reading and a revised critical reading, with the graphic edition below.

The essay traces the poem’s encounter with the dead through winter, the graveyard and the question that closes its six stanzas.

POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING

The existing reader and original interpretive essay are preserved below.