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 brings together the original interpretive reading and a revised critical reading, with the graphic edition below.
The essay follows memory from pursuit into stillness and descent, attending to the poem’s masks, animal images and three-part form.
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING
The existing reader and original interpretive essay are preserved below.
