WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL › POMEGRANATES DENIED
BUTTERFLY OF REVENGE
BUTTERFLY OF REVENGE
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Butterfly of Revenge”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page brings together the original interpretive reading and a revised critical reading, with the graphic edition below.
The essay follows the butterfly’s return through shadow, memory and the human face of what has been destroyed.
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
The existing reader and original interpretive essay are preserved below.
