Ebook {Epub PDF} Irradiated Cities by Mariko Nagai

Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron Irradiated Cities Poems by Mariko Nagai Les Figues Press, August $, pp. ISBN Irradiated Cities is impossible to leave at a remove from one’s own body. It is a discomfiting revelation and a devastating indictment of one of the twentieth century’s defining forces: nuclear power. The book is a .  · In IRRADIATED CITIES, Mariko Nagai seeks the dividing events of nuclear catastrophe in Japan, exploring the aftermath of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Nagai's lyric textual fragments and stark black and white photographs act as a guide through these spaces of loss, silence, echo, devastation, and memory.  · Mariko Nagai Les Figues Press ($17) by John Bradley "we are still in the before the after: before the before the after," writes Mariko Nagai, reflecting on the nuclear disaster that took place in Fukushima in The nuclear focus of this book-on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Fukushima-feels quite timely, given our nation's stance on North Korea, which means it makes for uncomfortable.

IRRADIATED CITIES, BY MARIKO NAGAI Coming off 's young adult verse novel Dust of Eden, Nagai's newest is a book of contrasts and contradictions. At once prose poem and essay, Irradiated Cities is a diffusion of images and sounds surrounding Japan's nuclear history. Intermingled with Nagai'. Free delivery on online orders of $ or more anywhere in Australia. "Mariko Nagai's Irradiated Cities unfolds in a feverish, relentless tumble of phrases and sentence fragments—as if the book's central theme (the history of radiation in Japan) is too immense, too painful and overwhelming to be contained in a more conventional narrative. Nagai's text is densely layered and stacked with linked events.

The story moves chronologically through four cities affected by radiation: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Fukushima. Nagai’s descriptions capture something deeper than history books do. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Hybrid Genre. Asian Asian American Studies. Winner of the NOS Book Contest, as selected by guest judge l#; thi diem th#;y. The before, the after, and the event that divides. In IRRADIATED CITIES, Mariko Nagai seeks the dividing events of. Irradiated Cities by Mariko Nagai is a collection of prose poems and photographs about the destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima by nuclear weapons. The long prose poems are comprised largely of fragments of narrative, research and voices of the victims.