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PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL SAINT
PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL SAINT
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Portrait of a Medieval Saint”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Portrait of a Medieval Saint” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the gold of suffering and the saint’s exposed gaze, tracing the poem’s account of artistic limits and the distance that separates hearing from seeing.
ESSAY
ESSAY
