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Union Carbide & Poetry

For more on Union Carbide's history, see Muriel Rukeyser's poetry sequence "The Book of the Dead," from -U.S. 1-, published in 1938, when many West Virginia workers were killed by silicosis:

"...These are our strength, who strike against history.
These whose corrupt cells owe their new styles of weakness
to our diseases;

these carrying light for safety on their foreheads
descended deeper for richer faults of ore,
drilling their death...."

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