The Book of the Dead Mark Edberg has provoked a vast secondary

has provoked a vast secondary literature

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and the tendentious use of "science" in the development of social reforms in the early twentieth century

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The Book of the Dead Mark Edberg has provoked a vast secondaryWritten in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead 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