CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
同心圆 · Yang Lian 杨炼
CIRCLE I
Three chapters · nine poetic units
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CIRCLE I · THREE LENSES OVERVIEW
Lens I · The Remainder and the Tenant — architecture and grammar →
Lens II · The Emptied Temple — philosophy and spirit →
Lens III · A Hundred Kidneys Singing — image, affect and the experience of reading →
CIRCLE II
Three chapters · eleven poetic units
CHAPTER ONE
Midnight Letter — first occurrence
CHAPTER TWO
Complete poem in five movements
CHAPTER THREE
Midnight Letter — second occurrence
CIRCLE II · THREE LENSES OVERVIEW
Lens I · The Wings and the Word — architecture and grammar →
Lens II · Tended by Death: Circle Two and the Owed I — philosophy and spirit →
Lens III · Warm Distance and the Forty-Year-Old Garment — image, affect and reading →
CIRCLE III
Three chapters · three poetic units
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CIRCLE III · THREE LENSES OVERVIEW
Lens I · The Door and the Tower — architecture and grammar →
Lens II · A Tower Built Downward: Circle Three, the Angel and Babel — philosophy and spirit →
Lens III · Each Step into Empty Air and the Cemetery Underfoot — image, affect and reading →
CIRCLE IV
Eight poetic units
A Labyrinth Gradually Growing I
A Labyrinth Gradually Growing II
A Labyrinth Gradually Growing III
A Labyrinth Gradually Growing IV
CIRCLE IV · THREE LENSES OVERVIEW
Lens I · The Labyrinth and the Couplet — architecture and grammar →
Lens II · The Dead Know the Way: Circle Four and a Comedy without Paradise — philosophy and spirit →
Lens III · Learning Painlessness and the Line That Came Back Worse — image, affect and reading →
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