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SPRING, OR A RIVER’S PAIN IN YOUR LOVE
SPRING, OR A RIVER’S PAIN IN YOUR LOVE
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Spring, or a River’s Pain in Your Love”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Spring, or a River’s Pain in Your Love” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines how spring, river, and body converge in pain and affection, reading the poem’s images of containment alongside its river-like structure and the relation between silence and speech.
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