WRITINGS
Nuclear peril: literary images
Warnings: An Anthology
On The Nuclear Age
Edited by John Witte
Northwest Review Books
With literary
and visual im- !
ages, “Warn
ings: An An
thology On 1
The Nuclear
Peril’’
presents the spectrum of
thoughts and emotions that
have risen in this century under
the threat of nuclear
destruction.
The book's poetry, art, fiction
and essays represent the com
bined talents of more than 40
writers and artists. The collec
tion includes works by promi
nent authors such as Ken Kesey,
William Stafford and Ajan
Dugan, and an interview with
poet Gary Snyder.
Street photography, three
dimensio’nal painting and con-"
'• ceptuafart are some"of the styles
used by. the contributing "artists
to illustrate their perceptions of.
nuclear anxiety.
' [“Eight Photographs.’’"shot by •
Marly- Stone, during’ an anti- *
nuclear rally in New York City,
' ' is a series of photos that have
been painted, pencilled; bleach
ed, and burned around the '
edges, giving them a sur
realistic quality.
Throughout the concrete
poetry.- the comfortable, civiliz
ed world .of flowers, animals
and baby, strollers decorated ]
with "Greenpeace,” “Save the
Whales” and “No Nukes”
(from Michael David
Madonick’s “American Spr
ing”), are starkly contrasted
with the vivid horror of nuclear
explosions and their
aftereffects.
r—'
I he fallacy a! human om
lipotence and ethnocentrism is
lummarized in the last couplet
)f Richard Eberhart’s
‘Testimony”: “We wanted to
ook in the eye of God / We got
iix feet of radioactive sod.”
Through the use of graphic
mages and symbolism, as ex
:mplified in James Bertolino's
‘The American,” the poetry of
such writers as Ray Young Bear,
Geraldine Little, Madeline
leFrees and Ralph Salisbury is
»ble to express almost inex
pressible fears.
The questions and concerns
jf the nuclear age are put forth
in several diverse short stories,
ft.ID. Skilling’s “Sunday Morn
ings” deals with social changes
from pre-nuclear times to the
present and the ensuing
emergence of a world that is
more nightmarish and
gruesome. '
:‘‘X.-Day,” by Marie Luise
Kaschnitz, probes into the
thoughts .of a woman who
knows it is the last day of her
family’s.• and her - world’s,
existence.
The essays examine some of
the. current intellectual ap
proaches to the nuclear peril.
"Something. For Our Poetry,”
by John Haines, looks at the
relationship of politics to
writing, and Robert Mielke’s
“Imaging Nuclear Weaponry:
An Ethical Taxonomy of
Nuclear Representation”,
discusses nuclear discourse and
magery in fiction, film and
elevision from the 1950s to the
present.
Through these essays runs the
jnderlying theme, that society
must shake off its apathy and
jecome more conscious of the
implications of nuclear war.
In Phil Woods' interview
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with Uary bnyaer, some ot
which was recorded at the
University in 1983, Snyder
comments on the vast dif
ferences between modern in
dustrial civilizations and the
pre-literate cultures which were
much closer to natural pro
cesses. He also addresses the
necessity of deeper self and
social awareness in order to
avoid complete destruction of
Earth.
“Warnings” contains modern
anti-nuclear literature and art
work of excellent caliber,
created by some of the most
talented artists and writers in
the country. More than an an
thology,. it is a creative social
statement that speaks to the
greatest of all crises.
Lori Stephens
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