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PERPENDICULAR TO THE PAPER

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Perpendicular to the Paper”

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

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This page presents a close-reading essay on “Perpendicular to the Paper” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.

The essay examines writing as a deferred fall toward the page, where paper becomes both workspace and grave and the writer remains within the forces the poem records.

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