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NEIGHBOURS I–II

An essay on Yang Lian’s poems “Neighbours I” and “Neighbours II”

From Where the Sea Stands Still · poems translated by Brian Holton

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This page presents a close-reading essay on “Neighbours I” and “Neighbours II” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.

The essay examines how domestic proximity becomes shared mortality, tracing the paired poems’ fire, clay and temporal imagery alongside their structure and Holton’s translation.

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