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THE SHAPE OF GHOSTS
THE SHAPE OF GHOSTS
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “The Shape of Ghosts”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “The Shape of Ghosts” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines the living body as the form through which the dead continue, following the mother’s gaze and the cicada’s cry across the poem’s four-part structure.
ESSAY
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