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
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.