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The Nanjing Massacre: Poems offers us a series of snapshots of human cruelty, courage, and compassion that together compose a frightening yet accurate and unforgettable portrait of a historical nightmare. Like Goya’s prints in Disasters of War, or Ian MacMillan’s prose sketches in Proud Monster, Wing Tek Lum’s poems confront readers with fully realized vignettes of brutality, love, and suffering whose effect is cumulative.
The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. 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.
But The Nanjing Massacre is much more than a chamber of horrors. Lum’s spare and meticulous verse offers up vivid, memorable, and even beautiful images, and many of the poems are mini-narratives; suspenseful and compelling. The result is a gallery of disturbing portraits that nevertheless move us through their artistry and truth.
| Page Count | 240 pages |
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| Publisher | Bamboo Ridges Press, Printed in USA |
| Publish Date | April 2013 |
| Dimensions | 9" x 6" x 0.53" |
| Author | Wing Tek Lum |
| About the Author | Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His first collection of poetry, Expounding the Doubtful Points, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 1987 and was the winner of the 1988. |
| Binding | Softcover |
| ISBN 13 | 9780910043885 |
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