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THE COMPOSER’S TOWER
THE COMPOSER’S TOWER
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “The Composer’s Tower”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “The Composer’s Tower” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the tower as both burial chamber and instrument, following the poem’s descent through sound, silence and bodily decay to the child listening behind a wall.
ESSAY
ESSAY
