Eureka Mill By Ron Rash ISBN: 1-891885-26-X Paperback 64 pages, 5.5 x 8 Publication Date: September 2001 $13.00

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."

Written by Ron Rash, who lives in Clemson, 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.

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 Double Take. He is the author of several novels and books of short stories.