Eureka mill: poetry
Eureka Mill is Ron Rash’s first poetry book which comprises of 42 poems. The poems in the book reflect on the lives of Appalachian famers who worked in a mill village near Chester, South Carolina. The poems in the books go into detail about the lives of the mill workers, the community and the town. For instance, in the poem preparing the body, Rash discusses the ritual of preparing a dead man’s body in the region (Rash 1-4). In his poem the fighting gamecocks, Rash explains how men in the community enjoyed watching fighting birds because the game was ...
