Coal Town Photograph

by Pauletta Hansel

Poetry. "I read in a glossary of mining terminology that prize means to lever or loosen with a pry bar or pick. And the term suggests the noun for what is gained: a prize. In COAL TOWN PHOTOGRAPH, Pauletta Hansel prizes memory for the resource that it is. Throughout, this book dives into the challenge of the past as place. Its journey is from underground-darkness to a state of earned brightness. As she tells us in the title poem: 'I am from / a place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948017393
• ISBN13: 9781948017398
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"