The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki : Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Foreword 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: The United States, Japan, and the Atomic Bomb 12 Novellas 40 August 6 42 Two Grave Markers 63 Residues of Squalor 94 Stone's Sleep 125 Photographs 154 Hiroshima and Nagasaki After the Bomb 156 Poetry 164 Poems by Atomic Bomb Survivors 166 Tanka 180 Haiku 190 Photo Essay 206 The Boy Who Was a Fetus: The Death of Kajiyama Kenji 208 Citizens' Memoirs 224 My Husband Does Not Return 226 No Place to Go 235 The Memory of Nutrias 241 Father and Son Robbed of Body and Soul: A Record of Ryu Choon Seung and His Son 253 Koreans . . . and Americans and Chinese Are Also Victims 258 Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors 268 Children's Voices 278 Children's Voices 280 Reiko 295 Bibliography of Atomic Bomb Literature 304 The Authors, Photographers, Artists, and Their Work 308 This anthology of factual reports, memoir short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and includes childrens' voices