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THE SKY SHIFTS
THE SKY SHIFTS
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “The Sky Shifts”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “The Sky Shifts” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay examines involuntary displacement through the shifting sky and map, tracing how the poem’s movement from active to passive verbs turns the self into something moved by forces beyond it.
ESSAY
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