O Bon

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