So Much to Be Angry about: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979

by Shaun Slifer West Virginia University Press 3/31/2021, paperback SKU:  9781949199949   A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning . In a remarkable act of recovery, So Much to Be Angry About conjures an influential but largely obscured strand in the nation's radical tradition--the "movement" printing presses and publishers of the late 1960s and 1970s, and specifically Appalachian Movement Press in Huntington, West Virginia, the only movement press in Appalachia. More than a history, this craft- and activist-centered book positions the frontline politics of the Appalachian Left within larger movements in the 1970s. As Appalachian Movement Press founder Tom Woodruff wrote: "Appalachians weren't sitting in the back row during this struggle, they were driving the bus." Emerging from the Students for a Democratic Society chapter at Marshall University, and working closely with organizer and poet Don West, A