Thumb Notes Almanac: Hitchhiking the Marcellus Shale

by Craig Czury

"The voices Czury chronicles in his Thumb Notes Almanac are of everyday people trying to navigate through the thunderous noise of this region's divide. From shards of conversation struck up in the cars and trucks of people open enough to pick him up when he had his thumb out, Czury creates a verbal mosaic: fractured pieces of fractured conversations from a hydro-fracked region."--Kimberly Crofton, preface to the first edition

87 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Craig Czury is a lecturer at Albright College. He has an M.F.A. creative writing from Wilkes University.

Reviews

[Patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Craig Czury spent the early years of the Marcellus Shale gas industry boom hitchhiking up and down State Route 29 from Tunkhannock to Springville, chatting with his drivers about their notions and experiences with the booming shale play. The result was a schoolhouse wall full of "thumb notes" and this book of poetry and "creative non-poetry." Never mind the trucks.