When We Say "Hiroshima": Selected Poems Volume 23

Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till now she has addressed her poetry primarily to issues of nuclear destruction, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power. Herself a victim of the world's first nuclear attack, she became the poetic conscience of the Hiroshima that was no more. But Kurihara turned her attention soon to more controversial issues, including Japan's role as victimizer in World War II. Many of her poems attack the Japanese government and its policies then and now.When We Say "Hiroshima" contains a selection of the poems Kurihara wrote between 1942 and 1989. They include meditations on death, on survival, on nuclear radiation, on Japanese politics, on American foreign policy, and on women's issues.

Author: Sadako Kurihara
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 03/02/1999
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.49h x 4.99w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9780939512898
ISBN10: 0939512890
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Literary Criticism | Asian | General

About the Author
Richard Minear is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A specialist on Japanese intellectual history and on the Pacific War, he has translated Requiem for Battleship Yamato (1985) and the survivor-accounts of t