U.S. 1.
Publisher: Covici, Friede
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Description: This book contains one of Muriel Rukeyser's most powerful pieces; a group of poems entitled The Book of the Dead (1938), documenting the details of the Hawk's Nest incident, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners died of silicosis.
Notes: "This first edition ... consists of thirteen hundred copies ... printed on Warren's eggshell wove paper."
Poems.