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NEIGHBOURS III–IV
NEIGHBOURS III–IV
An essay on Yang Lian’s poems “Neighbours III” and “Neighbours IV”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poems translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Neighbours III” and “Neighbours IV” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay considers the woman’s quoted voice, the tension between memory and forgetting, and bodily decay, before examining how the living poem becomes a neighbour to the dead.
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