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CROW’S PROPOSITION

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Crow’s Proposition”

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

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This page presents a close-reading essay on “Crow’s Proposition” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.

The essay reads the crow’s proposition as an argument about interdependent opposites, examining how darkness makes light visible and how the poem unsettles boundaries between life, death, and perception.

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