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HOUSE LIKE SHADOW
HOUSE LIKE SHADOW
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “House Like Shadow”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “House Like Shadow” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay considers the house as a form of dwelling emptied of its inhabitant, relating shadow, absence, and borrowed shelter to the experience of exile.
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