Living in Hiroshima

Publication Instance Details #13

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Displacement/Forced Migration Genocide HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	Killing is one of the forms of our wandering mourning. - Rilke
Notes	Long, complex poem about Hiroshima, the Holocaust, World War II, and their aftermaths. This poem is comparable to 'Aifreann na Marbh' by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc in scope. Poem is divided into three named sections, with these sections further divided into 'hironyms', short, four-line lyrics. There are many references to Japan, Hiroshima, World War II, the Genocide of the Jewish people, Eisenhower, experiments on people in concentrations camps, the hubris of science, and so forth. There are frequent references to media, videos, cameras, and eyes in the poem. The poem is not complete here - it is titled as 'from Living in Hiroshima' in the index of the collection. There are many religious references in the poem, such as St Paul on the Road to Damascus.