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    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima"
    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima"
    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima"
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    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima"

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    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535842549
    A Study Guide for Mary Jo Salter's "Welcome to Hiroshima"

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      Welcome to Hiroshima

      Mary Jo Salter

      1985

      Introduction

      Mary Jo Salter's poem Welcome to Hiroshima follows its narrator on a trip to the first city ever bombed by a nuclear device. Written in the mid-1980s, the poem considers the futility of a community that tries to create a memorial to such an unimaginably deadly and destructive event. Salter discusses viewing the exhibits at the Peace Park, erected at the site of the nuclear bomb blast that killed up to two hundred thousand people, most dying from prolonged ailments caused by radiation exposure. In this poem, the city is trying to move on and put one of the most devastating moments of the twentieth century behind it, but it is also trying to retain the memory of those who were killed: as a result, the horror of that one day, long ago, continues to arise, even in a serene setting of lawns and rivers.

      Salter is one of the best-known American poets of the end of the twentieth century, a central figure in the new formalism literary movement. Welcome to Hiroshima was first published in Henry Purcell in Japan, her first poetry collection, in 1985 and has been reprinted and anthologized frequently, particularly in Salter's 2008 collection A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems.

      Author Biography

      Salter was born on August 15, 1954, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Harvard University, where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in 1976. She earned a master of arts degree from Cambridge University in England in 1978. For a short time, she worked as an editor of the Atlantic and taught at Harvard, but in 1980, after her marriage to poet Brad Leithauser, whom she met when they were students, Salter moved to Japan, where Leithauser had a job with the Kyoto Law Center. They stayed in Japan for three years. In that time, she was busy writing and publishing. She was

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