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STONE ON THE WINDOWSILL
STONE ON THE WINDOWSILL
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Stone on the Windowsill”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Stone on the Windowsill” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines surveillance and the reversal of the gaze, following the stone’s transformation from ornament into watcher and the human figure’s reduction to an object under its indifferent attention.
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