Author: William Heyen
Publisher: Etruscan Press
ISBN: 0979745055
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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William Heyen is one of America's most prolific and respected poets.

Author: Sadako Kurihara
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Compelling poetry that constitutes a major legacy of the nuclear age

Author: James Kirkup
Publisher: Spokesman Books
ISBN: 9780851246895
Category : Anti-war poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Sheila Fugard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524535524
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Harp Song for Hiroshima is a work of prose and poetry. The poems introduce the reader to the voices of the people who died on that devastating dayAugust 6, 1945when an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and brought to an end to World War II. The suffering of those lives is eloquently remembered in the book, giving rise to a new understanding and compassion. Together with the poems, there are prose passages of travel through contemporary Japan. The fallout of the atom bomb on Hiroshima is still with us. The message of the book is that nuclear weapons must never be used again if our civilization is to survive.

Author: Manuelle Augustine
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781718050969
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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A compilation of poems by Poetry for Peace Poets from its Theme Event in commemoration of the fatal day in August 6, 1945, the dropping of the first NuclearAtomic Bomb in the heart of Hiroshima Japan.

Author: Sadako Kurihara
Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
ISBN: 0472038168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume includes a translation of Kuroi tamago from the complete edition of 1983. But August 6, 1945, was not the end point of Kurihara’s journey. In the years after Kuroi tamago she has broadened her focus—to Japan as a victimizer rather than victim, to the threat of nuclear war, to antiwar movements around the world, and to inhumanity in its many guises. She treats events in Japan such as politics in Hiroshima, Tokyo’s long-term complicity in American policies, and the decision in 1992 to send Japanese troops on U.N. peacekeeping operations. But she also deals with the Vietnam War, Three Mile Island, Kwangju, Greenham Common, and Tiananmen Square. This volume includes a large selection of these later poems. Kurihara sets us all at ground zero, strips us down to our basic humanity, and shows us the world both as it is and as it could be. Her poems are by turns sorrowful and sarcastic, tender and tough. Several of them are famous in Japan today, but even there, few people appreciate the full force and range of her poetry. And few poets in any country—indeed, few artists of any kind—have displayed comparable dedication, consistency, and insight.

Author: Chad Diehl
Publisher: Excogitating Over Coffee Publishing
ISBN: 9781450712972
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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"Tanka poems compiled, translated, and edited by Chad Diehl"--T.p. verso.

Author: William Heyen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982426357
Category : Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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I invite you to allow this remarkable Hiroshima Suite-which he seems to have heard all at once in one non-linear audition-to intone for you until, within the ~transluminous horror' of August 6, 1945, we are never not whole again but are, at the same time, in Robert Frost's phrase, 'beyond confusion.'-Edwina Seaver, Rome, 2012

Author: Tony Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571176755
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Tony Harrison has developed a unique form of film/poem to confront the major horrors of the twentieth century. This collection includes the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award, The Gaze of the Gorgon; his defence of Salman Rushdie, The Blasphemers' Banquet, his four-part poem Loving Memory; A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan; and The Shadow of Hiroshima. The volume was published to coincide with the screening of 'The Shadow of Hiroshima', directed by Tony Harrison, on Channel 4 television on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, 6 August 1995. The introductory essay by Peter Symes, BBC television producer and director of many of these film/poems, provides an insight into Tony Harrison's methods of working in this medium.

Author: Grace Cluster
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773428508
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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An interpretation of the imprint made by the atomic bomb, this poem seeks to depict a few days in the lives of some of the affected people.