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GLASSBLOWER
GLASSBLOWER
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Glassblower”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Glassblower” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines how glass imagery joins artistic making, bodily fragility and time, and how the poem’s form and Holton’s translation develop that relationship.
ESSAY
ESSAY
