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By force of imagination
Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance
each one represents a different way of glimpsing the world
but it always remains a real place
ignored or worse – ridiculed and mocked
A Tower Built Downwards by Yang Lian, trans. Brian Holton Philip Terry By force of imaginationBefore 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
