I was at Okinawa at the time the bombs were dropped. Great
celebration aboard the ship. But then ours was one of the
first US ships to visit Nagasaki after the bomb. It was not
a celebatory site. See my 1945 Revisited. Thanks for this, Bill.
A people’s heart can be found in their poetic words. In history men and women have stood firmly upon their soapboxes and street corners, rallying the deepest beliefs of people to rise up and be heard. The poetrypages.com has offered that voice a new
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
celebration aboard the ship. But then ours was one of the
first US ships to visit Nagasaki after the bomb. It was not
a celebatory site. See my 1945 Revisited. Thanks for this, Bill.
-gene.