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No Jacket. Morgantown. 2017. February 2018. West Virginia University Press. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781946684219. Introduction by Catherine Venable Moore. 4.72 x 7.48. 3 images, 1 map. 144 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Poetry Women Appalachia History. DESCRIPTION-Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays. If Rukeyser had left us only The Book of the Dead and The Life of Poetry, she would have made a remarkable contribution to American literature. But the range and daring of her work, its generosity of vision, its formal innovations, and its level of energy are unequalled among twentieth-century American poets. -Adrienne Rich, introduction to Muriel Rukeyser, Selected Poems. Muriel Rukeyser's words are a painful, haunting memorial to an American crime. Catherine Venable Moore's graceful essay sets the work in its time and place, and ties it to today's struggles. -Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. 'HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW: Beginning in June of 1930, three thousand men dug a three-mile hole through a sandstone mountain near the town of Gauley Bridge for the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. The company was building an electrometallurgical plant nearby, which needed an unlimited supply of power and silica, and the tunnel was determined to be the cheapest and most efficient source of both. A dam would be built to divert a powerful column of the New River underground and down a gradually sloping tunnel to four electrical generators; the ground-up silica rock harvested during excavation would be fed into the furnace in Alloy. Three-quarters of the workers were migratory blacks from the South who lived in temporary work camps, with no local connections or advocates. Turnover on the job was rapid. By some reports, conditions were so dusty that the workers' drinking water turned white as milk, and the glassy air sliced at their eyes. Some of the men's lungs filled with silica in a matter of weeks, forming scar tissue that would eventually cut off their oxygen supply; others wheezed with silicosis for decades. When stricken, the migrant workers either fled West Virginia for wherever home was, or they were buried as paupers in mass graves in the fields and woods around Fayette County. The death toll was an estimated, though impossible to confirm, 764 persons, making it the worst industrial disaster in US history. '-CATHERINE VENABLE MOORE, from the introduction to Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead. inventory #43348.
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