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The headwaters of Robbing the Pillars begin deep in the anthracite
country of Pennsylvania and wind their way through mountain
tributaries before reaching the Susquehanna River. These poems
venture out west through smeared Nebraskan skies, up wild
Washington waters, and into the Siskiyou Mountains as meteors split
the sky on fire. They traverse the wet woods of Maine along the
West Branch of the Penobscot River to the peak of Katahdin. They
hike the Appalachian, Continental Divide, and Pacific Crest Trails.
In the early coal mines of Pennsylvania, miners crawled into the
deepest parts of the mines, set dynamite, and blew joists holding
up walls in hopes of getting the last valuable rock before the
mountain collapsed -- robbing the pillars. The poems in Robbing the
Pillars are the dynamite, the pillars, the rock, the mountain, and
the miners. They embrace terrains familiar and forgotten -- those
which have been stripped and left to become wild again. They
explore the physical (geological, riverine), familial, personal,
and cultural landscapes of our world as we rob its pillars.
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