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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

Rubin, Steven
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher

Hardcover

Series: Keystone Books

Environmental StudiesGeneral PhotographyGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0271080930
ISBN13: 9780271080932
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Aug 12 2018
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 10.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 industrial processes that often occur far from the populations that benefit from them. Amid polarized claims about fracking and pressure to develop these areas around the world, this project gathers evidence from everyday life in the Marcellus Shale Play. Kasdorf and Rubin follow in the footsteps of the documentarians of the 1930s, such as the artists and writers of the Works Progress Administration, taking a deliberate and thoughtful approach to gather the stories of workers on pipelines and well pads, landowners and leaseholders, waitresses, ministers, farmers, retired miners, teachers, and neighbors. The resulting collage of vivid oral and pictorial testimony reveals the natural beauty of rural places as well as the disturbance and spectacle fracking creates.

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