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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 presents a close-reading essay on “Butterfly of Revenge” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows the butterfly’s return through shadow, memory and the human face of what has been destroyed.
ESSAY
ESSAY
