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Eureka Mill Paperback – September 1, 2001

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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.

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64 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Hub City Press
Publication date

September 1, 2001
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.25 x 8 inches
ISBN-10

189188526X
ISBN-13

978-1891885266
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"Not so much a raising of the dead as an articulation of those who lived." -- Tommy Hays, The Asheville Citizen-Times

"The people of Eureka Mill live lives of poverty and ignorance but not lives of despair." -- Charles Israel, The (Columbia) State

About the Author

Ron Rash is a 1994 winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hub City Press; 2nd Printing edition (September 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 189188526X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1891885266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.25 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,270,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #945 in Poetry About Places (Books)
- #12,558 in American Poetry (Books)

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Carl O. Trindle

This expands our horizons.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015

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Ron Rash pays tribute to his family, and by extension to all the durable and courageous people of Appalachia. The artist's work inspires pity and terror, but also love and respect.

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Patricia Wood

Not in “good” condition but poor condition.

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

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It was a slim poetry book w/only about 40 poems. At least a dozen of them were marred by student notes and big artsy doodles in ink. You could hardly read the poems for the comments in ink. Definitely not in “good” condition,

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2014

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Beautiful descriptions of hard times among honorable folks determined to survive.

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WellReadBeard

Hard people and hard times

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2019

Read poetry, for God's sake read poetry - David Joy
First of all, I am in love with Ron's prose, I have read 10+ novels or short story collections by him and every single one has been 4-5 stars. This was my first experience with his poetry. The book is about a cotton mill and Ron's grandfather's journey out of the fields and into the mill. I know, right? How can this be good - it's not a poetry book with a broad range of subjects, all I can say is that it just is.

In general it deals with the grass being greener, stories of farmers milking every ounce of daylight from the day to eke out an existence. One would put in months and months of work, not really knowing if the payoff would be there at the end of the season. On the adverse, we see folks leaving the fields for the mill, for days of back breaking work but with definite pay. The farmers look to the mill for saving, the mill workers look back to the fields with longing. It's a vicious cycle cast with hard people and hard times.

Themes of drought, tobacco farming, mill accidents, family.

My favorite poems were
County Fair
Accident
Preparing the Body
1934
Black And White

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Randall Ivey

A classic in the making

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2001

Rash's work really deserves a larger audience. He has a command of language and image sadly lacking in too many contemporary poets, and he has a compassion for his subject matter that is even rarer.
Rash's work is neither too personal nor esoteric. He is concerned with recording, in verse, the lives of men and women who would otherwise be forgotten. His subject matter is COMMUNITY, as one would expect from a Southerner. In this case he writes of the Carolina millworkers in the early part of the twenthieth century who literally turned their lives off to the cotton mill bosses and submitted themselves to lives of heat, early hours, drunken sprees, boredom, and lint-inflicted disease and death.
In many ways EUREKA MILL is a novel in verse. Rash certainly has a novelist's eye for detail, nuance, characterization, and place. And there are also great affinities to the Twelve Southerner's I'LL TAKE MY STAND. EUREKA MILL provides a kind of verse correlative for the essays in that classic work. Mass industrialism has forced people off the land and out of the lives they have known for generations and has left them with...what? Alienation, bitterness, and early death.
A powerful volume, worthy of a wider readership.

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Mark Gunnells

Evocative and Haunting

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2018

I'm not really that into poetry but I love that these poems have a strong narrative structure. They offer a glimpse into the past, a certain time, location, people, and way of life. The poems are evocative and haunting. Great stuff.

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Wayland Stallard

Five Star Rating for a book of poetry? No way you say!

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2007

I bought this book without realizing it was a book of poetry. I then compounded my error by taking it on vacation with me. When I opened it and found it was poetry, I thought the start of my vacation was ruined.

Until now, I've avoided poetry like the plague, but when I gave in and forced myself to read it I was moved, touched, and taught by Rash's great poems. Not a bad one in the bunch.

I really, really look forward to reading the two other books I bought of his at the same time: Chemistry and Other Stories and a novel, The World Made Straight.

Even if you think you don't like poetry, you'll love this book.

Wayland Stallard

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