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SNAKE TREE
SNAKE TREE
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Snake Tree”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Snake Tree” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows the toxic garden into the poem’s own language, examining how nested images of breath, organs and childhood implicate poetic description in the violence it describes.
ESSAY
ESSAY
