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The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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POEMS BY ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS
From Nihon genbaku shishu
Umeboshi*
Ikeda Some
Oh yes, at that moment, what shall I say,
together with the glass case in the dining room
I tumbled
Rumble rumble each time it shook
I squeezed out to the top of the roof.
Squeezed out?āthere was no way I could get myself out
I was helped out I suppose
by the gods or by the Buddha.
Oh what distress what pain
I wish Iād breathed my last quickly
then Iād be able to go to the other world, I thought.
It was on the morning of the third day
that someone put an umeboshi in my mouth.
āThis old womanās dead, alas
poor woman
namu Amidha namu Amidha,ā
he stroked my face.
āIām alive Iām alive,ā I said
then he kindly dropped
a big umeboshi in my mouth.
This thing umeboshi is a good thing.
It was thanks to that umeboshi
that I grew stronger.
City in Flames
Nakamura On
Under a pale blue glow, the black sun,
dead sunflowers, and a collapsed roof,
people lifted their faces voicelessly:
bloody eyes that exchanged looks then
loosely peeling skin
lips swollen like eggplants
heads impaled with shards of glassā
āhow can this be a human faceā
everybody thought at the sight of another
yet each who so thought had the same face.
Flames soon wrapped the city
at one house there were only a mother and a seven-year-old girl
crushed...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The United States, Japan, and the Atomic Bomb
- FM page
- Novellas
- Photographs
- Poetry
- Photo Essay
- Citizens' Memoirs
- Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors
- Children's Voices
- Bibliography Of Atomic Bomb Literature
- The Authors, Photographers, Artists, and their Work