The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry publication. A limited, signed, hard cover edition of fifty copies was issued simultaneously with the soft cover version of the first edition.
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Author | Richard Brautigan |
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Cover artist | Edmund Shea |
Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Four Seasons Foundation |
Publication date | 1969 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Softcover) |
Pages | 108 |
Preceded by | Please Plant This Book |
Followed by | Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt |
The collection of ninety-eight poems includes thirty-eight that were previously uncollected. The rest were gathered from five of Brautigan's previous poetry publications.[1] In some cases, all of the poems from an earlier book were included in this volume.
The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills.[2]
When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside of you.
"The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster" (1968)[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Richard Brautigan > The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster". www.brautigan.net.
- ^ "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan". Poetry Foundation. September 27, 2019.