148p., wraps, illus., very good condition. Inscribed and signed by Ruth Yarrow (as "Ruth Y.") on the title page. Appalachian Writing Series / Working Lives Series.

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Title

Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields: Found Poems

Publisher

Bottom Dog Press, Huron, OH

Publication Date

2015

Language

English

ISBN 10

1933964812

ISBN 13

9781933964812

Binding

Paperback

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The separate voices of coal miners, women as well as men, are heard in these interviews recorded half a century ago by Mike and Ruth Yarrow and painstakingly transcribed during the intervening years and put into poetry form. The photographs of Douglas Yarrow deepen the stories here. From the opening words you know the listening won't stop before these voices are brought to the ears of the world. Now here they are--courageous and compassionate despite the undertow of dangerous and unfair realities: a testimony to human dignity . . . from Katharine Boynton Payne, author of Silent Thunder: in the Presence of Elephants

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As I write this, the death knell of Appalachian coal is being sounded. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon, coal mining will only support a few people in the region. Mike, Ruth, and Doug Yarrow have performed a great service here. In Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields they have with great care and skill preserved the voices and images of the men and women who performed the dangerous work of mining in order to power the nation through the 20th century. Coal miners have received little thanks for their sacrifice. May these voices remind us that the remaining miners deserve support as they face an uncertain future.~Dense ~Denise Giardina, author of Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth

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