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NEIGHBOURS V
NEIGHBOURS V
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Neighbours V”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Neighbours V” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay traces the sequence’s return to fire and bodily architecture, examining the mirror’s exile of the self, the poem’s displacement of its maker, and the final image of mutually watching wounds.
ESSAY
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