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Eureka Mill
By Ron Rash
ISBN: 1-891885-26-X Paperback
64 pages, 5.5 x 8
Publication Date: September 2001
$13.00
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The
Asheville Citizen-Times writes: "Every now and then a
book comes alongthat 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. If is
even more remarkable if the book is set where we live, a place
we thought we'd been.
Written by Ron
Rash, who lives in Clemson, these poems make up a dramatic
and lyrical portait 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.
Ron Rash is
a winner of the 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Literary
Fellowship. In 1987 his fiction won a General Electric Younger
Writers Award, and he was awarded the Sherwood Anderson Prize
in 1996. His poetry and fiction have appeared in a number
of journals, including Yale Review, Georgia Review, Oxford
American, Southern Review and DoubleTake. He is the author
of several novels and books of short stories.
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