Poetry. "Shimoda's world is a hushed world--his book, a silent prayer, not to a god, but to life, the life of survivors--that one can whisper, can join the dead--that whisper turns into a ritualistic text, a celebration of witnessing, of the minute manifestations of reality.... Insinuating itself in the memory of Hiroshima and the bomb--a disaster surpassing disasters-his work is the saying of the dead who return, is a Requiem."--Etel Adnan
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Poetry. "Shimoda's world is a hushed world--his book, a silent prayer, not to a god, but to life, the life of survivors--that one can whisper, can join the dead--that whisper turns into a ritualistic text, a celebration of witnessing, of the minute manifestations of reality.... Insinuating itself in the memory of Hiroshima and the bomb--a disaster surpassing disasters-his work is the saying of the dead who return, is a Requiem."--Etel Adnan
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