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Muriel Rukeyser – The Book of the Dead (1938)

Part I of U.S. 1 (1938). If you’re looking for an excerpt, I would suggest ‘Power’ or ‘The Book of the Dead’. 0:01 The Road [in previous video] 2:57 West Virginia [in previous video] 6:18 Statement: Philippa Allen 9:36 Gauley Bridge 12:19 The Face of the Dam: Vivian Jones 15:00 Mearl Blankenship 21:03 Absalom 28:07 The Disease 30:36 George Robinson: Blues 33:05 Juanita Tinsley 34:27 The Doctors 40:33 The Cornfield 45:17 Arthur Peyton 48:20 Alloy 50:40 Power 58:39 The Dam 1:06:37 The Disease: After-Effects 1:10:47 The Bill 1:15:28 The Book of the Dead ’In 1930, Union Carbide began work to divert the nearby New River to a factory-powering hydroelectric dam. In 1932, the lawsuits started. Workers—mostly African American migrant laborers—were dying from or suffering the effects of silicosis, a chronic lung disease caused by dust inhalation and tissue scarring. Of the approximately 3,000 who worked on the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel, contemporary estimates suggest 746 died from silicosis or related illnesses. Union Carbide fought its responsibility, but basic safety precautions (wetting rock before drilling, access to masks and ventilation for miners) could have mitigated or even prevented the outbreak. At the beginning of 1936, the House Labor Subcommittee opened hearings into the incident, spurred by articles in Time and Newsweek that followed a New Masses exposé.’ (Kenyon Review, 22 November 2019) In the museum life, centuries of ambition yielded at last a fertilizing image: the Carthaginian stone meaning a tall woman carries in her two hands the book and cradled dove, on her two thighs, wings folded from the waist cross to her feet, a pointed human crown.