Publisher's Synopsis
The separate voices of coal miners, women as well as men, are heard in these interviews recorded half a century ago by Mike and Ruth Yarrow and painstakingly transcribed during the intervening years and put into poetry form. The photographs of Douglas Yarrow deepen the stories here. From the opening words you know the listening won't stop before these voices are brought to the ears of the world. Now here they are--courageous and compassionate despite the undertow of dangerous and unfair realities: a testimony to human dignity . . . from Katharine Boynton Payne, author of Silent Thunder: in the Presence of Elephants
