The Essay

"THE BOOK OF THE DEAD" 

by Catherine V. Moore
photos by lisa elmaleh

Find it in the Fall 2016 issue of The Oxford American magazine, or read it for free ONLINE.  

A long-form narrative nonfiction essay that explores the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster through a sequence of poems by Muriel Rukeyser called "The Book of the Dead," included in her groundbreaking 1938 collection of documentary poems of witness, U.S. 1.