Living in Hiroshima

Publication Instance Details #3164

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This publication contains only a few hironyms from the main body of the sequence: 'Ground Zero'; 'Magic'; 'Aioi Bridge'; 'A Month Early'; 'Nostalgia'; 'The Domei News Agency'; 'Museum Time'. 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.