BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD — Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

New York : Laurel (Dell) 1973 First Laurel Printing (Cpyright 1968) 108 p., SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperb. with b/w photogr. VERY GOOD) VERY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER 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, in that both leave life, with all of its potential, buried forever. / When you take your pill/ it's like a mine disaster./ I think of all the people/ lost inside of you.