ESSAYS & ARTICLES
文章
Writing by and about Yang Lian, his poetry and poetics.
杨炼的诗论，以及关于其诗歌与诗学的文章。
ESSAYS BY YANG LIAN · 杨炼文论
Essays on poetry, literature, culture and thought. Website links lead to Yang Lian’s own archive.
关于诗歌、文学、文化与思想的文章。网页链接通往杨炼本人的文论档案。
QU YUAN · 屈原
The Poetry of Qu Yuan: The Submerged Source · English translation →
ENGLISH · 英文
LITERATURE · 文学
In Search of Poetry as the Prototype of Exile →
Concentric Circles -- a preface →
International within the Local →
Ancient, exhilarating poems that sound imagist →
Building a Tower from the Top Downward →
A WILD GOOSE SPOKE SPEAKS TO ME →
The Poetics of Space, and More · PDF →
POLITICS & CULTURE · 政治与文化
On the dark side of the moon →
中文 · CHINESE
文论 · LITERARY ESSAYS
思想 · THOUGHT
READINGS OF YANG LIAN · 杨炼诗歌评论
WHERE THE SEA STANDS STILL · 大海停止之处
ENGLISH · 英文
An essay on irregularity, active absence and becoming in Where the Sea Stands Still.
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An extended reading of language, body, history and exile in Where the Sea Stands Still.
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A reading of Yang Lian alongside Qu Yuan, tracing poetic dwelling, displacement and the collection’s title.
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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中文 · CHINESE
从不规则性、积极的缺席与过程性的“现在”，展开对《大海停止之处》的细读。
并读杨炼与屈原，探讨《大海停止之处》中的诗性居所、流亡与标题的语法。
结合诗歌原文，讨论静止与运动、留白及组诗的交响结构。
杨炼《大海停止之处》中的观看与出航。沿着全诗四章展开，探讨目光、见证与离去所带来的后果。
构筑《大海停止之处》：起源、蓝图、路线与更大的建筑。从诗的创作起源与空间结构，追踪它同《YI》及《同心圆》的联系。
杨炼与经验的建筑学。围绕《YI》与《大海停止之处》，探讨诗歌形式、历史必然性与参与的自由。
YI · 《YI》
ENGLISH · 英文
Yang Lian and the Architecture of Time. From the written character to the structures of Yi and Concentric Circles, a sustained exploration of spatial poetics, history and translation.
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Yang Lian’s Yi and the Rewriting of Change
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Yi, Pound and the Poem That Contains History
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The evolution of a poetic universe
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Finding Our Way Through Yang Lian’s 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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中文 · CHINESE
杨炼与时间的建筑学。从字与诗行到《YI》和《同心圆》的整体结构，探究空间诗学、历史与翻译之间的关系。 中文编订版。
杨炼长诗《YI》与“易”的重写
《YI》、庞德与“诗含史”
一个诗歌宇宙的演变
走进杨炼的《YI》与《同心圆》
杨炼与经验的建筑学。围绕《YI》与《大海停止之处》，探讨诗歌形式、历史必然性与参与的自由。
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES · 同心圆
ENGLISH · 英文
Yang Lian and the Architecture of Time. From the written character to the structures of Yi and Concentric Circles, a sustained exploration of spatial poetics, history and translation.
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A reading of YI and Concentric Circles alongside Merleau-Ponty, exploring how seeing, touching and being seen unsettle the self—and why relation need not mean fusion.
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A reading of Circle One’s subtraction, perception and identity through the lens of relational ontology.
A reading of Concentric Circles through enclosure, descent and Yang Lian’s dialogue with Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan’s Temple and the Deconstruction of Surface Reality in Yang Lian’s Concentric Circles
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A reading of “deep reality” that brings the preface to Concentric Circles into dialogue with Yang Lian’s essay on Qu Yuan.
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中文 · CHINESE
杨炼与时间的建筑学。从字与诗行到《YI》和《同心圆》的整体结构，探究空间诗学、历史与翻译之间的关系。 中文编订版。
将《YI》与《同心圆》同梅洛-庞蒂并置阅读，探问观看、触摸与被看见如何动摇自我，以及为何相互关联并不意味着彼此融合。
从关系本体论的视角，探讨第一圈中的减法、感知与身份。
从围合、下降与屈原的回声，阅读《同心圆》的诗性结构。
屈原的庙壁与杨炼《同心圆》对表层现实的解构
并读《同心圆》序言与杨炼论屈原的文章，探讨“深度现实”的诗学。
NARRATIVE POEM · 叙事诗
ENGLISH · 英文
An exploration of how poetic form can both disclose a world and confine a life, asking how Yang Lian’s trilogy makes form answerable to singular lives.
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A reading of Narrative Poem’s recurring images and bodily memories, asking how its spatial architecture makes room for a life’s singular events.
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An essay on date, address and mourning, asking how poetry can know what happens only once without reducing it to an example.
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A reading of Narrative Poem alongside YI and Concentric Circles, exploring poetic architecture as a place to inhabit, question and transform.
中文 · CHINESE
探讨诗歌形式如何既敞开世界、又囚禁生命，追问杨炼三部曲如何使形式回应不可替代的个体生命。
从《叙事诗》中反复出现的意象与身体记忆出发，探讨空间结构如何容纳生命中独一无二的事件。
围绕日期、称呼与哀悼，追问诗如何认识只发生一次的事，而不将其化约为一般事例。
将《叙事诗》与《YI》《同心圆》并读，探讨诗的建筑如何成为可以栖居、追问与改变的空间。
A TOWER BUILT DOWNWARDS · 倒建的塔
ENGLISH · 英文
An essay on images, saturation and the possibility of escape in A Tower Built Downwards.
中文 · CHINESE
探讨《倒建的塔》中的意象、饱和与逃离的可能。
FURTHER ESSAYS · 其他评论
ENGLISH · 英文
A reading of Yang Lian’s “Masks” through Victor Segalen, translation and the blank page, exploring the limits of representation.
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Yang Lian’s timeless poetic field, Cosima Bruno’s continuous contingency, and translation as performance
An essay on Yang Lian and the question of “Misty Poetry”.
A study of relational vision in Yang Lian’s poetry.
A study of rhythm, caesura and the expression of manner in Yang Lian’s poetry and Brian Holton’s English.
A speculative reading of form across Yang Lian’s trilogy, tracing how spatial structure becomes a musical invitation through duration.
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中文 · CHINESE
从维克多·谢阁兰、翻译与空白纸页出发，细读杨炼《面具》，探讨再现的限度。
杨炼的共时诗歌场、Cosima Bruno 的“持续偶然性”，以及作为表演的翻译
探讨杨炼诗歌中的关系性视野。
从杨炼的《鹤乡》与帕斯卡的芦苇出发，反思诗歌、意义与哲学的限度。
关于语言游戏、关系本体论与体验的哲学思考。
围绕关系、感知与因果性展开的哲学对话，为关系性阅读提供思想背景。
继续探讨关系本体论，考察逻辑、定义与概念划分的前提。
以思辨的方式阅读杨炼三部曲中的形式，追踪空间结构如何在绵延中转化为音乐性的邀请。