The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry publication. A limited, signed, hard cover edition of fifty copies was issued simultaneously with the soft cover version of the first edition.

The collection of ninety-eight poems includes thirty-eight that were previously uncollected. The rest were gathered from five of Brautigan's previous poetry publications.[1] In some cases, all of the poems from an earlier book were included in this volume.

The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills.[2]

   When you take your pill
   it's like a mine disaster.
   I think of all the people
        lost inside of you.
"The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster" (1968)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Richard Brautigan > The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster". www.brautigan.net.
  2. ^ "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan". Poetry Foundation. September 27, 2019.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pill_Versus_the_Springhill_Mine_Disaster
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