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WHAT ENDED
WHAT ENDED
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “What Ended”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “What Ended” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows the tiger, the moving body and the poem’s paradox of an ending that cannot remain final.
ESSAY
ESSAY