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but it always remains a real place
Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance
By force of imagination
providing an ample
violence and the body
A Tower Built Downwards by Yang Lian, trans. Brian Holton Philip Terry but it always remains aBefore and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. A Tower Built Downwards is the latest instalment of his poetry, written between 2019 and 2021. The different sections short poems, sequences, and one long poem form a single comprehensive statement
