WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL › POMEGRANATES DENIED
GLASSBLOWER
GLASSBLOWER
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Glassblower”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page brings together the original interpretive reading and a revised critical reading, with the graphic edition below.
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.
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
The existing reader and original interpretive essay are preserved below.
