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FIESTA

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Fiesta”

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

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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.

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