WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL › POMEGRANATES DENIED

THE NORTH

An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “The North”

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

中文版 →

This page brings together the original interpretive reading and a revised critical reading, with the graphic edition below.

The essay reads cold, whiteness and the exposed body as a landscape of time and uncertain memory.

POEMS & ORIGINAL INTERPRETIVE READING

The existing reader and original interpretive essay are preserved below.