Bringing Forth New Life

Bringing Forth New Life

is a poem written in August 1945 in the radioactive ruins of Hiroshima by the poetess Sadako Kurihara. [http://www.nhk.or.jp/peace/english/library/198006.html NHK Peace Archives] . Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed February 29, 2008.] It tells the real story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of exhaustion in the process. This poem was first published in March 1946. The baby mentioned in the poem is still living today in Hiroshima, named Kazuko Kojima.

An alternate English name for the poem is "We Shall Bring Forth New Life". [http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/Stage1/1-2/1-2-15E.html Hiroshima Peace Site] . City of Hiroshima. Accessed February 28, 2008.]

Further reading

*Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes, (English translation, 1961)
* [http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/04/bring-forth-new-life-chernobyl-26th.html On an Overgrown Path: Bring Forth New Life] , for the text of the poem.

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