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Synopsis
20th Anniversary Edition of this classic poetry collection, with a foreword by New York TImes Bestselling author, Robert Morgan and a new preface by the author. The Asheville Citizen-Times writes: "Every now and then a book comes along that transports us so thoroughly to another time and another way of life that, when we finally put it down, our own lives don't quite look the same. It is even more remarkable if the book is set where we live, a place we thought we'd been." These poems make up a dramatic and lyrical portrait of the migration of poor Buncombe County farmers to a mill village outside Chester, S.C. However, the book is much more than documentary. Rash, whose grandparents and parents worked in the Eureka Mill interweaves his family's personal history with the broader texture of mill life, giving us at once intimacy and perspective, heart and understanding.
Synopsis
20th Anniversary Edition of this classic poetry collection, with a foreword by New York TImes Bestselling author, Robert Morgan and a new preface by the author.
First published in 1998, Eureka Mill is Ron Rash's seminal collection of poetry. It introduced the world to the often overlooked Appalachian region--and cemented Rash's name as synonymous with Southern writing.
Eureka Mill presents a lyrical portrait of the pre-Depression migration of poor North Carolina farmers to Chester, South Carolina, to work in the Eureka textile mill. Drawing on his family history in the region that stretches back 300 years, Rash interweaves his personal history with the broader texture of mill village life, crafting an intimate perspective on the people forced by circumstance to toil in the abusive and inhumane conditions of the mills.
Still one of his finest works to date, *Eureka Mill* is a powerful and heartfelt tribute to a community strengthened by misfortune and adversity. Often compared to Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost, Rash's poetry elevates the people and sights of rural Appalachia to incandescent heights.
With a foreword by New York Times Bestselling author Robert Morgan and new note by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition will insure Eureka Mill will be treasured by a new generation of readers and scholars alike.