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University Press of Kentucky Media Center
April 2008
• Poems Celebrate the Eastern Forests
• Hear the Hardships of Harlan's Past
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POEMS CELEBRATE EASTERN FORESTS
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When writing his acclaimed book, Lost Mountain: A Year
in the Vanishing Wilderness, Erik Reece spent a year studying strip
mining and its effect on the environment and surrounding communities.
His experiences compelled him to produce a work that celebrates the vanishing
landscape, and the result is Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests,
an anthology of nature writing. Field Work, is an impressive collection
of verse from a diverse array of writers who have always shared their
love of nature with readers, such as Denise Levertov, Hayden Carruth,
James Wright, A.R. Ammons, and Mary Oliver.
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And given Kentuckians' connection
to the natural world, it is not surprising to find a number of them well
represented in Reece's anthology. Included are the contributions of several
former Kentucky poet laureates: James Still, Jim Wayne Miller, James Baker Hall, and Richard Taylor. Field Work also presents three poems
from central Kentucky native Davis McCombs, who won the Yale Series of
Younger Poets competition in 2000, and nine from the beloved Wendell Berry,
a prominent poet, essayist, and novelist as well as a nationally respected
conservationist. Read more...
HEAR THE HARDSHIPS OF HARLAN'S PAST
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In the early 1930s, Harlan County, Kentucky was afflicted by massive poverty as a result of the changing coal mining industry. The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of the striking Kentucky miners in November 1931, seeking to know how a labor dispute could lead to such a widespread social and economic crisis. Their findings make up Harlan Miners Speak: A Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields, which was originally published in 1932. Read more...
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