Research Catalog

Title

Today is not a good day for war / David Krieger.

Author

Krieger, David.

Publication

Santa Barbara, CA : Capra Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

xi, 86 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Peace movements > Poetry
• Peace > Poetry

Note

• "A Robert Bason book"--T.p. verso.

Contents

Hiroshima dreams -- War is too easy -- Refugee eyes -- The young men with the guns -- Four bronze figures without heads -- Spring morning -- In my anger -- Dachau -- All of this -- Empty suddenly -- Madmen -- A short history lesson : 1945 -- July 16, 1945 -- Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 -- Forgive me, Mother -- Poet from another planet -- Dance of Hiroshima -- Promises of peace -- Assassin -- That was then, this is now -- New York, April 30, 2000 -- Worse than the war -- A conspiracy of decency -- On Pinochet's arrest -- The drums -- In truth, we are bombing ourselves -- God responded with tears -- The deep bow of a Hibakusha -- A dangerous face -- Firing squad -- When the bomb became our god -- Once men could read the stars -- Remembering ourselves -- A shot rings out, a soldier falls -- The children of Iraq have names -- Unhealed wounds of humanity -- Mother's Day, 1969 -- Passing through Kokura -- Yet another farewell -- Sanctuary -- What shall we call the bomb dropped on Hiroshima? -- Decision to resume bombing Hanoi -- Awakening -- Guernica -- Robert McNamara - 1995 -- What is holy -- Meeting Einstein in my garden on the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima -- By government order not seeing is believing -- On becoming death -- Crossing the boundary of academic tolerance -- Looking back on September 11th -- Road markers -- Today is not a good day for war -- Early morning at the epicenter -- Hibakusha still live on earth -- Hibakusha do not just happen -- Wild stars and neglected anniversaries -- The bells of Nagasaki -- Einstein's regret -- When the draft comes back -- An improbable garden -- On becoming human -- Fifty-one reasons for hope -- Sadako and the Shakuhachi -- You are not one but many -- Dreams -- Advice to graduates.

ISBN

• 1592660509 (trade pbk.)
• 1592660517 (lettered)

LCCN

2004024552

OCLC

• ocm56809715
• SCSB-5183684

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries