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FIESTA
FIESTA
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Fiesta”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Fiesta” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines celebration stripped of its moral and theological order, tracing the reversal of light and darkness through the poem’s report-like declarations to its final refusal of heaven and hell.
ESSAY
ESSAY