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allyreadabook's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.5
suzanna_gg's review
dark
informative
sad
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Death, and Racism
jsalach's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
fast-paced
4.5
An incredible look into a not-well-known historical event.
mkiyxxmi's review against another edition
4.0
A really important book, but I think it would have made more of an impact if it were longer. The poetry is super powerful though, and I’m glad to have learned more about a tragedy I’d hardly heard about prior.
benplatt's review against another edition
4.0
A really carefully crafted piece of social and environmental justice witnessing that weaves together the corporate and industrial violence of the Hawk's Tunnel Disaster on the entire landscape of Gauley Bridge. Rukeyser moves between scales and subjects (human and nonhuman) with such deftness that she manages to effectively convey the specificity of this disaster while tying the forces at work here to greater social and environmental injustices, all in a matter of a fairly brief collection (half of this edition is comprised of a fairly lengthy essay) that moves between documentary, lyrical, and archival witnessing.