WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL
DARKNESSES
Spring, or a River’s Pain in Your Love
Dreams, or Each River’s Third Bank
Requiem, or River Running Back
HOUSE LIKE SHADOW
THE SKY SHIFTS
Broken Foot That Walks the Wall
Museum Windows Carved with the Names of Different Oceans
All the Rooms That Aren’t There
POMEGRANATES DENIED
WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL
FURTHER READINGS ON THE COLLECTION
Jan-Peter Schuring, developed in dialogue with AI.
Where Standstill Becomes a Verb →
An essay on irregularity, active absence and becoming in Where the Sea Stands Still.
An extended reading of language, body, history and exile in Where the Sea Stands Still.
The Shore That Cannot Shelter the Witness →
Seeing and departing in Yang Lian’s Where the Sea Stands Still. An extended reading of the poem’s four chapters and the consequences of looking, witnessing and departure.
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Building Where the Sea Stands Still: origin, blueprint, routes and the larger construction. A companion essay on the poem’s architecture and its connections with Yi and Concentric Circles.
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Yang Lian and the Architecture of Experience. A sustained study of poetic form, historical necessity and the freedom of participation in YI and Where the Sea Stands Still.
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