WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL › POMEGRANATES DENIED
PARK
PARK
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Park”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Park” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the inversion of the public garden’s pastoral promise, tracing how spring’s violence, the stranded walrus and an imagined green shelter turn a place of leisure into a scene of exclusion.
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