WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL › POMEGRANATES DENIED
LOOKING BACK
LOOKING BACK
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Looking Back”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Looking Back” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows memory from pursuit into stillness and descent, attending to the poem’s masks, animal images and three-part form.
ESSAY
ESSAY
