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VIOLENCE IN THE FOREST
VIOLENCE IN THE FOREST
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Violence in the Forest”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Violence in the Forest” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay reads the forest’s destruction through human violence, examining the sky’s impersonal agency, the conversion of suffering into aesthetic pleasure, and the shrinking refrain’s normalization of violence.
ESSAY
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