Communicating Climate Change

Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize Finalist

""Adam Vines' The Coal Life is a book mined from linguistic, literary, and historical underworlds. These poems keenly observe and deeply ponder; they dig into the mineral dark of memory, uncovering along the way forgotten and abandoned voices, idioms, occupations, thwarted desires, moments of grace in misery, and accidents of astounding beauty. An extraordinary first collection, The Coal Life is built to last even while it rests upon 'the shadow myth of ruins.'"

--Alan Shapiro, author of Old War: Poems (less)"

Though from the 1970s, this book has a chapter devoted to poetry as an "ecological survival technique."