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ignored or worse – ridiculed and mocked
By force of imagination
each one represents a different way of glimpsing the world
providing an ample
violence and the body
A Tower Built Downwards by Yang Lian, trans. Brian Holton Philip Terry ignored or worse – ridiculedBefore 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
