And the river flowed as a raft of corpses : the poetry of Yamaguchi Tsutomu : survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki
"The poetry included in Raft of Corpses "passes the baton" carried by Yamaguchi to convey the experience of the atomic bombings and spread a message of the importance of world peace and the necessity to abolish nuclear weapons. Diehl has selected and translated a total of sixty-five of Yamaguchi's tanka poems to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombings this year (2010). The book also includes numerous photographs and images of Yamaguchi's hand-written poems and calligraphy" --from Amazon.com
Print Book, English, ©2010
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