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BROKEN FOOT THAT WALKS THE WALL
BROKEN FOOT THAT WALKS THE WALL
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Broken Foot That Walks the Wall”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Broken Foot That Walks the Wall” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines bodily injury and enforced obedience, tracing the severed foot, the sealed sky and the demand for a signature through the poem’s account of surveillance and confinement.
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