The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster was Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry collection.  The collection contained ninety-eight poems, including thirty-eight that had not been previously collected.  The rest of the poems were taken from Brautigan's five previous poetry collections.  Fifty hardcover editions were released with the paperback copy of the book.

The title alludes to the loss of life and potential created by the birth control pill and the Spring Hill mine disaster.  Brautigan wrote "When you take your pill/it's like a mine disaster./I think of all the people/lost inside you."  (The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, Four Seasons Foundation, 1968)

The Spring Hill mine disaster occurred in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1958 and was immortalized in song by Pete Seeger and the Weavers.

~William Hammett

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