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UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “University”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “University” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay reads the university as a digestive system, tracing how chewing, swallowing and excreting organize the poem’s treatment of a generation’s bodies, knowledge and time.
ESSAY
ESSAY
