Black Eggs by Sadako, Kurihara -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Translator’s Introduction Part One: Black Eggs

Foreword, 1983 Introduction Free Verse

Black Eggs War Close Up Starry Autumn Sky The Fox’s Gold Coins What is War? From All the Battlefronts Once More, the Sun Thinking New Year’s Thoughts On a Day of Powdery Snow Basking in the Sun Rivalry Fever The Silkworm Day after Day Letter—To Peter Kropotkin Love Spring Green Let Us Be Midwives! Not the Season The Children’s Voices Do not Open Reconstruction Passion Handshake Overgrown Garden Handing on Dreams Fatigue The Vow The Vine

Tanka

The Day of the Atomic Bomb Nightmare The Surrender City Ravaged by Flames Newspaper Articles Snowy Night Language Late at Night Sad Tales from Demobilized Soldiers To a Friend, Evacuated Tomato Songs Last Effects Elegy First Letter The Birth of Junko New-Soldier Brother Miscellany Love of Self The Fall of Paris—Hitler Respect for Humanity Memories Paddy Field Pollinated by the Wind Record of My Passion Love My Friend Gives Birth to a Son Father, Mother Anesthetic Injection Cactus Flowers Korean Maiden To a Friend Waking from a Nap Elegy For Ms. Takemoto Kikuyo Hijiyama in Budtime

Afterword, 1983

Part Two: Selected Later Poems

The Poet

I’ll Always Keep Singing I. Bear Witness for Hiroshima Lost Summer Beached Love and Death Words—Come Back to Life! Words Died Frozen Eyes Leaves Blowing in the Wind Exposure In Memoriam The Gilded Hearse Life and Death

Hiroshima

Sachiko, Dead in the Atomic Bombing City under Ground Ruins Hiroshima: Three Poems The Green of Hiroshima The Hiroshima no One Serenades Dialogue Painting Void River Our City Door to the Future I. Saw Hiroshima Prayer for a Nuclear-Free Tomorrow

Japan

The Flag, 1 Peace Education Arrested River of Flames Flowing through Japan Beneath the Same Sky Question No Resting in Peace beneath the Flag When We Say "Hiroshima" Indictment of Japan The Flag, 2 The Flag, 3 Yasukuni February Eleventh, 1984 Spring Has Come to Europe What Did They Fight For? Words Are where It Starts Change

Emperors, Prime Ministers, Mayors

Human Emperor, Meek and Mild Nippon: Piroshima The Naked Emperor His Majesty Has Donkey’s Ears Hiroshima and the Emperor’s New Clothes Gold and Nukes The Day the Shōwa Era Ends

The World

The Crow Nevada, 1 Semipalatinsk, 2 Whom Did They Fight For? Don’t Go to the U.S.A.! American Pigweed Vietnam, Korea, Hiroshima America: Don’t Perish by Your Own Hand! America: World’s Best in Everything May Out of the Stone Refugees American Tragedy May in Beijing Hiroshima, Auschwitz: We Must not Forget Rain Rather than Weapons, Roses

The Nuclear Age

“You’re Next!” Hiroshima Twentieth-Century Sailing Japan’s Winter of 1961 Ravished City The Enterprise Goes up in Flames The Cherry Trees of Hiroshima Shades: The Post-Doomsday World Concentric Circles The Future Begins Here Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Harrisburg Aflame The Other Clock Let the Sun Shine on the Children Women’s Principles: Life and Peace

Alphabetical List of Poems by Title in English

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