Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

by Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271080930
• ISBN13: 9780271080932
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 9.1"