{"product_id":"shale-play-julia-spicher-kasdorf-9780271080932","title":"Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShale Play\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to gather the stories of these places and the working people who inhabit them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the parlance of the oil and gas industry, \"shale play\" refers to a region exploited for its natural gas by means of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling--transient industrial processes that often occur far from the populations that benefit from them. Amid polarized claims about fracking and pressure to develop these areas around the world, this project gathers evidence from everyday life in the Marcellus Shale Play. Kasdorf and Rubin follow in the footsteps of the documentarians of the 1930s, such as the artists and writers of the Works Progress Administration, taking a deliberate and thoughtful approach to gather the stories of workers on pipelines and well pads, landowners and leaseholders, waitresses, ministers, farmers, retired miners, teachers, and neighbors. The resulting collage of vivid oral and pictorial testimony reveals the natural beauty of rural places as well as the disturbance and spectacle fracking creates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA passionate work of witness, \u003ci\u003eShale \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlay\u003c\/i\u003e invites the reader to look beyond the easy caricatures of the white working class to create an urgent, authentic representation of a sacrifice zone that fuels America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Steven Rubin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271080930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271080932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 10.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Julia Spicher Kasdorf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990121185535,"sku":"9780271080932","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3e4178d-c8b0-4eae-86e4-1a6065497db9.jpg?v=1683303116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shale-play-julia-spicher-kasdorf-9780271080932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}