| The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster | |
| Author: | Richard Brautigan |
| Cover Artist: | Edmund Shea |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Publisher: | Four Seasons Foundation |
| Release Date: | 1969 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Softcover) |
| Pages: | 108 |
| Followed By: | Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt |
| Preceded By: | Please Plant This Book |
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry publication. A limited, signed, hard cover edition of fifty copies was issued simultaneously with the soft cover version of the first edition.
The collection of ninety-eight poems includes thirty-eight that were previously uncollected. The rest were gathered from five of Brautigan's previous poetry publications.[1] In some cases, all of the poems from an earlier book were included in this volume.
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.[2]