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REQUIEM, OR RIVER RUNNING BACK
REQUIEM, OR RIVER RUNNING BACK
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Requiem, or River Running Back”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Requiem, or River Running Back” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay reads the backward-flowing river as a form of mourning, connecting memory’s stillness and the poem’s musical structure with its final movement from an experience of death toward fearless love.
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