リーザ・ロウイッツさんから、詩人で出版者であるサム・ハミル氏のアピールが転
送されてきました。
わたしは、返信なしではすまない気持ちになり、送りかえしました。
以下が、その応答です。 木島 始
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leza Lowitz"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:02 AM
Subject: Anti-War Poetry
> Dear Poet Friends--please consider this action. The letter is from Sam
Hamill.
> a Poet, Editor and Publisher of Copper Canyon Press in the US.
>
> In peace,
>
> Leza Lowitz
>
> > January 19, 2003
> >
> >
> > Dear Friends and Fellow Poets:
> >
> > When I picked up my mail and saw the letter marked "The White House," I
> > felt no joy. Rather I was overcome by a kind of nausea as I read the
> > card enclosed:
> >
> > Laura Bush
> > requests the pleasure of your company
> > at a reception and
> > White House Symposium on
> > "Poetry and the American Voice"
> > on Wednesday, February 12, 2003
> > at one o'clock
> >
> > Only the day before I had read a lengthy report on the President's
> > proposed "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq, calling for saturation bombing
> > that would be like the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo, killing
> > countless innocent civilians.
> >
> > I believe the only legitimate response to such a morally bankrupt and
> > unconscionable idea is to reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement
> > like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam.
> >
> > I am asking every poet to speak up for the conscience of our country and
> > lend his or her name to our petition against this war, and to make
> > February 12 a day of Poetry Against the War. We will compile an
> > anthology of protest to be presented to the White House on that
afternoon.
> >
> > Please submit your name and a poem or statement of conscience to:
> >
> > kokua@olympus.net
> >
> > There is little time to organize and compile. I urge you to pass along
> > this letter to any poets you know. Please join me in making February 12
> > a day when the White House can truly hear the voices of American poets.
> >
> > Sam Hamill
> >
----- Original Message -----
From: "hkjm"
To: "Leza Lowitz"
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Anti-War Poetry
> Dear Leza Lowitz,
>
> I read Sam's appeal. I am not an American, so I am not sure of the
> qualification.
> Yet I wrote the following. If you find it worth sending, please forward
> this.
>
> I took care of Hiroshima victims
> as a student seventeen years old.
> Defeated and broken. Unrestorable.
> Who'll tend the bombed among you?
> Kijima Hajime (Tokyo, Japan)
>
