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SPACE

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Space”

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

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This page presents a close-reading essay on “Space” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.

The essay traces the poem’s progressive contraction from open landscape to a space too small for two people, examining bodily intimacy as a brief resistance to time’s encroachment.

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