The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
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The poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate helpless parents and the brutalized comfort women to the bloodless yet vicious bureaucrats of death. Drawing on published histories, memoirs, photographic collections, and oral histories, he composes testimony after testimony for the silenced—poetic memorials that also provide some measure of revenge against the victors.
At key moments, he also broadens the frame of reference, linking the crimes in China to the atrocities committed since then at different times, on different continents. Massacres, Lum suggests, bear a family resemblance—the human family.
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The result is a gallery of disturbing portraits that nevertheless move us through their artistry and truth. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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To view it, click here. BLOOD splattered on my shirt this blood must be another's - I am still alive I read this book because I was at my friend's house and it was a poetry book.
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We decided to roll him off by a shattered tree and make our way to the summit to find another of our wounded. It hurt—but then again maybe it did not matter to this guy any more. He had crosses over to another world. It was for us to help others persevere in ours. We are so hungry that when we come across a hidden crate of canned meat we lose all discipline and climb over each other to grab what we can. We do not notice the airplane overhead until it starts strafing us.
Everyone dives for cover. Now I wish I had.
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It feels awful to be so blissfully unaware of such atrocities. I lived in Rwanda for a few years and remember similar feelings when at the genocide memorial museum there. Thank you for writing and sharing this.
History is so much more than textbooks… to truly appreciate it we need to go out into the world and see it. Yea I think it adds an extra layer to the experience. Yet another profound example where humanity collectively failed. My heart goes out to the sufferers. I am an Indian and grew up hearing multiple propaganda against the Chinese yet did not know about this. Thank you for this blog post.
The bright spot in the Nanjing Massacre is the Nanjing Safety Zone Committee members who stayed behind to provide refuge to Chinese civilians. Your email address will not be published.
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