The Half-Life of Salt, voices of the Enola Gay by Charles Hood
(cover photo by Michael Light)

From Wendover to Hiroshima, this book discovers the many stories surrounding the Enola Gay, the B-29 which dropped the first atom bomb. In poetry and prose, it explores war, landscape, language, and loss, as well as history's inexorable resculpting of human culture, one heart at a time.

About the Author
With the help of the Center for Land Use Interpretation and other sponsors, Charles Hood researched this book in the American West, on Pacific islands, at the Imperial War Museum in London, and throughout Southern Japan. Born and raised in blue-collar Los Angeles, Hood received an MFA from UC Irvine and a Fulbright in Ethnopoetics. He has also been a dish washer, a factory worker, a bird guide, and a ski instructor. Father to two sons and a daughter, he currently teaches writing at Antelope Valley College.

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