Table of Contents |
| Preface / John Bradley | |
| Introduction / Terry Tempest Williams | |
| Creation / Benjamin Alire Saenz | 3 |
| Tulum Saw the Coming / Alan Napier | 5 |
| May 28, 1945 / S. L. Wisenberg | 7 |
| High Altitude Photo of Hiroshima (Circa 1944) / Kent Johnson | 10 |
| The Bath: August 6, 1945 / Kimiko Hahn | 11 |
| Questions / Marc Kaminsky | 14 |
| At the Makeshift Aid Station / Toge Sankichi | 15 |
| The Horse / Philip Levine | 17 |
| Land of Little Sticks, 1945 / James Tate | 19 |
| Trilobytes / Kent Johnson | 20 |
| The Shadow / Toge Sankichi | 22 |
| The Fish Dream / John Engels | 24 |
| Sailors Shielding Their Eyes During Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini, 1947 / John Bradley | 25 |
| August 6, 1950 / Toge Sankichi | 28 |
| Uranium / Robert Morgan | 31 |
| For Ethel Rosenberg / Adrienne Rich | 33 |
| But Bird / Paul Zimmer | 38 |
| The Hibakusha's Letter (1955) / David Mura | 40 |
| Early Morning Test Light over Nevada, 1955 / Robert Vasquez | 43 |
| The Planet Krypton / Lynn Emanuel | 45 |
| Bomb / Gregory Corso | 47 |
| Nevada Red Blues / Adrian C. Louis | 53 |
| Watching Dark Circle / Denise Levertov | 56 |
| Trying to Talk with a Man / Adrienne Rich | 57 |
| Advice to a Prophet / Richard Wilbur | 59 |
| The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Ai | 61 |
| Oppenheimer / Antonia Quintana Pigno | 64 |
| When the Vacation Is Over for Good / Mark Strand | 71 |
| "The radio talk . . . " / Lorine Niedecker | 72 |
| At the Bomb Testing Site / William Stafford | 73 |
| Vapor Trails / Gary Snyder | 74 |
| N / William Heyen | 75 |
| Mushroom Clouds / John Engman | 77 |
| Harry S Truman Library, Independence, Missouri / Diane Glancy | 78 |
| For Harry S Truman in Hell / David Ray | 81 |
| The Hell Mural: Panel I / Ronald Wallace | 83 |
| Atomic Ghost / John Balaban | 85 |
| Strategic Air Command / Gary Snyder | 86 |
| What the End Is For / Jorie Graham | 87 |
| Directions for Carrying Explosive Nuclear Wastes through Metropolitan New York / June Jordan | 91 |
| Tar / C. K. Williams | 93 |
| Utilities Advertisement in the Wake of Three Mile Island / Gary Metras | 96 |
| The Message / Jeffrey Hillard | 97 |
| Chernobyl / Mary Jo Salter | 100 |
| Wine from Bordeaux / Sujata Bhatt | 102 |
| Eight-Legged Colt, Chernobyl / Jerah Chadwick | 105 |
| Radiophobia / Lyubov Sirota | 106 |
| Country of Origin / Maureen Hurley | 108 |
| In the Shadow of the Poisoned Wind / Jack Marshall | 112 |
| Waiting for the Invasion / Barbara Kingsolver | 113 |
| Late Spring in the Nuclear Age / Andrew Hudgins | 117 |
| The Lightning / James Grabill | 118 |
| Hurricane Season / Edwina Trentham | 120 |
| Dream of the Hair-Burning Smell / Jana Harris | 122 |
| Spuyten Duyvil / Honor Moore | 124 |
| The Cocked Finger / Stephen Dunn | 133 |
| Bringing Zeus to His Knees / Antler | 135 |
| Armageddon / William Dickey | 137 |
| from The Last Fire Feast / Daniela Gioseffi | 140 |
| Rose Bay Willow Herb / Judy Ray | 141 |
| The Garden / Dorianne Laux | 143 |
| A Dream of the Closeness of Venus / James Grabill | 145 |
| When / Sharon Olds | 149 |
| The Way Light Bends / W. D. Ehrhart | 150 |
| The Crab-Apple Crisis / George MacBeth | 151 |
| Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze / Christopher Buckley | 160 |
| The Atom Bum / William Greenway | 162 |
| Terminal Colloquy / Charles Martin | 163 |
| Nuclear Winter / Thomas McGrath | 164 |
| Nuclear Winter / Nicholas Samaras | 165 |
| Deeper Than a Dream / Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate) | 166 |
| After the Neutron / Terrance Keenan | 167 |
| They're Family Men / Ellen Bass | 168 |
| To an Unborn Child / Allan Cooper | 170 |
| Because of Duties, Zimmer Had Forgotten the Forest / Paul Zimmer | 174 |
| from An American Peace / Peter Oresick | 175 |
| Tale Before the End of the World / Maurya Simon | 177 |
| Silence at the End of the World / Amber Coverdale Sumrall | 179 |
| Eating Dinner at My Sister's / David Romtvedt | 181 |
| High Noon at Los Alamos / Eleanor Wilner | 185 |
| A Liturgy for Trinity / Barbara La Morticella | 187 |
| Why I Think About Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Edward A. Dougherty | 191 |
| Hiroshima Day at the Riviera Coffeeshop / Andrea Collins | 193 |
| Welcome to Hiroshima / Mary Jo Salter | 195 |
| The Fundamental Project of Technology / Galway Kinnell | 197 |
| Return to Hiroshima / Lucien Stryk | 199 |
| When We Say "Hiroshima" / Kurihara Sadako | 202 |
| The Garden Shukkei-en / Carolyn Forche | 204 |
| How to Survive Nuclear War / Maxine Kumin | 206 |
| Shadow / Stephanie Strickland | 209 |
| Radiation / Margaret Gibson | 211 |
| Gathered at the River / Denise Levertov | 215 |
| Memorandum / Nanao Sakaki | 218 |
| Origami / Jay Griswold | 220 |
| Another Kimono / Nancy Eimers | 222 |
| Mervyn Clyde Witherup / William Witherup | 224 |
| The Half-Life of Sorrow / Roger Greenwald | 226 |
| War Resisters' Song / Thomas McGrath | 229 |
| Ground Zero / Sharon Doubiago | 230 |
| Black Beauty, A Praise / David Romtvedt | 239 |
| A Vigil at a Missile Silo / Mark Sanders | 243 |
| Plutonian Ode / Allen Ginsberg | 245 |
| Preparing the Nets at New Stuyahok / John Brandi | 250 |
| Opening Day / David McKain | 251 |
| Wahsah Zeh (War Dance) - As Long as the Grass / Joseph Bruchac | 253 |
| Shadow / Patricia Goedicke | 263 |
| Psalm / Peter Huchel | 267 |
| The Lamb of Peace, The Ram of War / William Witherup | 268 |
| Strategies for Survival / Beryle Williams | 269 |
| Prayer for Men and Children / Linda Hogan | 272 |
| Shoulders / Naomi Shihab Nye | 274 |
| An Army of Lovers / Alicia Ostriker | 275 |
| Prayer for Continuation / Susan Griffin | 277 |
| Sunday Afternoon at Fulham Palace / Elizabeth Spires | 290 |
| On the Eve of Our Mutually Assured Destruction / C. D. Wright | 293 |
| Prayer for a Future Beyond Ideology and War / Kelly Cherry | 295 |
| Destruction / Shinkichi Takahashi | 297 |
| Explosion / Shinkichi Takahashi | 298 |
| Simultaneously / David Ignatow | 299 |
| Of Simple Intent / Pamela Uschuk | 300 |
| Green Light / Rolf Jacobsen | 302 |
| Notes on the contributors | 305 |
| Acknowledgements | 317 |
| Index | 327 |