NARRATIVE POEM › PART I · PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 2
‘Little Tiger’
‘Little Tiger’
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Little Tiger”
From Narrative Poem · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay in both a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay attends to the animal addressed as “you”, its vulnerability, and the pressures of political language on intimate memory.
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