The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
by Wing Tek Lum
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THE NANJING MASSACRE: POEMS offers us a series of snapshots of human cruelty, courage, and compassion that together compose a frightening yet accurate and unforgettable portrait of a historical nightmare. Like Goya’s prints in DISASTERS OF WAR, or Ian MacMillan’s prose sketches in PROUD MONSTER, Wing Tek Lum’s poems confront readers with fully realized vignettes of brutality, love, and suffering whose effect is cumulative.
The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. The poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate helpless parents and the brutalized comfort women to the bloodless yet vicious bureaucrats of death.
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| ISBN | 910043884 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0910043885 |
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| Number of Pages | 240 |
| Weight | 12.8 oz |
| Dimensions | 8.8 × 6 × 0.5 in |
Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His first collection of poetry, EXPOUNDING THE DOUBTFUL POINTS, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 1987 and was the winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award and the 1988 Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award.
With Makoto Ooka, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Lum participated in a collaborative work of linked verse, which was published as WHAT THE KITE THINKS by Summer Session, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, in 1994.


