Irradiated Cities by Mariko Nagai is a collection of
prose poems and photographs about the destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and
Fukushima by nuclear weapons. The long prose poems are comprised largely of
fragments of narrative, research and voices of the victims. The dialogue is
sometimes in italics, but not always, and not always specified where it has
originated, either from documents, conversations and interviews or the
imagination of the poet. The collection traces the impact of the bombing and
resultant radiation on the area, surrounding areas, on its people and
infrastructure over time (from the bombing through the present) through medical
documents, scientific reports, personal testimony, interviews, personal
experience of the poet, news articles and other avenues. Notes for the poems are
found between the collection’s sections.
the author’s website: https://www.mariko-nagai.com/
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