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WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL
WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL
An essay on Yang Lian’s poem “Where the Sea Stands Still”
From Where the Sea Stands Still · poem translated by Brian Holton
This page presents a close-reading essay on “Where the Sea Stands Still” in two forms: a reading edition and a graphic edition.
The essay follows the twelve-part poem’s four movements, tracing the tensions between motion and stillness, language and experience.
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