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...Corey Miller © 2014 Corey Miller 2014 Corey Miller The Apocalypse Comes to Coal Country What if the mines shut down and the only coal left is in my father’s lungs? Will EPA paratroopers descend upon him and finally put down the Beast? Will the Smithsonian...

...,” the expansion of the market “over the entire surface of the globe,” the “subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery,” the “clearing of whole continents for cultivation” (Marx 1978, 476–77). He links this augmented agency with the new regime of coal-based energy produc- tion, the role of “steam...

...Whittney Jones © 2013 Whittney Jones 2013 Whittney Jones I Could Call You Worse Things It’s the implications when she says his name that he doesn’t like. Coal miner: covered in soot, bent at the joints, toothless, hillbilly. Never gonna amount to a single...

... of England and never once remember that hundreds of feet below the road you are on the miners are hacking at the coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward.” George Orwell, writing in The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936, was willing to forget...

... of the minds and a subsequent mentoring. The moment he stepped through that classroom door with an armload of books and a smile that said you are about to be gifted, I was hooked. He demonstrated how little family background need impede. Ever sensitive to my own West Virginia coal-mining...

...Jackie Chicalese [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Jackie Chicalese 2024 Before the light can pulley against coal ribs the shadows of mules, the fire boss must kindle the first lamp & caution his entry down slope. To make his living, the man becomes a canary, cages...

... the Sugar Man’s sweet, blow his blue pills like confection, drink cold beer in a hot shower until the steam turns to dead black coal, and my mind is only twenty percent alive, the other eighty bravely waiting like a good dog left untied outside a bodega. minnesota...

... into the motors of a society whose form and rationale originate at a distance from coal mines, oil fields, or wind farms. However, as recent research in the field of energy humanities has insisted, the forms of energy we use and how we use them give a far deeper shape to the character of the social than we have...

... bill. I open my mouth for small talk and out it comes, shimmering blue bruise in a puff of coal dust. It has its own life now. Everyone can see it, can stick out an index finger in the hopes it may alight there. Had I swallowed it, it would be stuck inside, incandescent filament in my gut, one...

... into confused light with the matted grasses and blackened leaves below the field of ice where I blow on cold coals in a pit of ash and bone. Let it come from the calcium veins branching under graveyards, be root-sucked into breathing green, feed, flower this brain to see...

... shone there, golden in the broken wood, his head a wick heavy with coal oil as the flash- pan ignited to ash, and on the black-bright canvas that was his skin was written the complaint men’s faces made as they clamored, white brims and silver shovels, stock chain, and the one black eye forced open...

.... They were like dust to her. A little tear-sheet at the food co-op in Riverside. That s what I knew. The penmanship on the slip of paper was composed in some insane calligraphy. Someone sensitive to clean and perform other duties. Later she told me her father had been a coal mogul from back when coal mining...

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... organizer who was part of a large coal-mining family. By the mid-40s he was separated, and about that time moved to New York City where he taught classes in economics and math and maintained his organizing work. By the 1950s Ted was remarried, to poet Marie Strong...

... ecosexual weddings (86). The committed people declare their love for dirt, lakes, coal, snow, cockroaches, and other earthlings. A second part, titled “Insurgent Exposure,” includes two chap- ters, “The Naked World: Spelling, Stripping, Lusting as Environmen- tal Protest” and “Climate Systems...

... across her wide and innocent face, and too there was the smell of freshness, of new life and cleanliness, the huge tilled span of Illinois, its inter- locking sections of farmland, the highways and rural routes and gravel spills and coal mines and coon clubs and clusters of black angus and tin...

.... He is a recent graduate of Indiana University. “JCF Welcome” is his first published essay. Lydia Conklin is a writer and cartoonist living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Carousel Magazine, Coal City Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere...

... instance on the combustion of coal: the transformation of long-dead life from the depths of the Earth into heat energy, a process that in turn released the substance that was once the very “breath” of that life back into the atmosphere. (Coal deposits are composed primarily of vegetal life...

... and firm in the fast healthy current, buried in the water like ingots of precious metal. They hold fast to the bank, laurel green with bellies of coal fire. Wilder colors than you’d dare imagine on your own. Stock had destroyed the run —​to be true, the Mercers had —​and silky mud rose off...

... born early, and I was so small my father held me in a single coal-stained palm. But I hit 100 pounds in 2 months, sucked dear Mother dry, so they let me suckle off the cows teats. 4 cows were what it took to sate baby Bunyan. Made strong civic impact. My first steps mimicked the very quaking earth...