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<div> Written in response to the Hawk?s Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, <i>The Book of the Dead</i> is an important part of West Virginia?s cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. <br /> Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of <i>The Book of the Dead </i>includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in <i>Best American Essays</i>. <br /> &nbsp; </div>