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DISMAL SUMMER
DISMAL SUMMER
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Dismal Summer”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Dismal Summer” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay explores repetition without progress, tracing counted recurrences, the sick body and the survival of words as vessels of flesh and blood.
ESSAY
ESSAY
