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Shale Play - Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields (Hardcover)
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Shale Play - Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields (Hardcover)
Series: Keystone Books
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In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and
award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the
small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to
gather the stories of these places and the working people who
inhabit them. In the parlance of the oil and gas industry, “shale
play” refers to a region exploited for its natural gas by means
of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—transient
industrial processes that often occur far from the populations that
benefit from them. Amid polarized claims about fracking and
pressure to develop these areas around the world, this project
gathers evidence from everyday life in the Marcellus Shale Play.
Kasdorf and Rubin follow in the footsteps of the documentarians of
the 1930s, such as the artists and writers of the Works Progress
Administration, taking a deliberate and thoughtful approach to
gather the stories of workers on pipelines and well pads,
landowners and leaseholders, waitresses, ministers, farmers,
retired miners, teachers, and neighbors. The resulting collage of
vivid oral and pictorial testimony reveals the natural beauty of
rural places as well as the disturbance and spectacle fracking
creates. A passionate work of witness, Shale Play invites the
reader to look beyond the easy caricatures of the white working
class to create an urgent, authentic representation of a sacrifice
zone that fuels America.
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