Colorfast by McLarney, Rose

Colorfast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143137528)

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Colorfast by McLarney, Rose

Colorfast

$20.00
Colorfast by McLarney, Rose

Colorfast

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A haunting, intimate, and beautifully-crafted collection of poems rooted in southern Appalachia that reflects on loss and remembrance--and reaches beyond the constraints of time and place

Rose McLarney's fourth collection of poems, Colorfast, reckons with fading and bleeding away, the gray of aging and the gray areas to which truths are relegated. McLarney reconsiders girlhood stories, acknowledges omissions from Southern history, and studies the silences of women's and other voices left out of accounts of the past. Yet she does not write of only what has been lost, defying elegy with tributes to her mother while she is alive to read them, and finding vibrancy that remains in sources such as weeds, gravel, insect shells, and the flawed human body. Colorfast weaves its threads into poems that, like the women who dwell in them, are subtly strong enough to stand alone, while they also connect into a provocative conversation about heritage and the holds we can keep.

Author: Rose McLarney
ISBN-10: 0143137522
ISBN-13: 9780143137528
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d

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By Rose McLarney
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Rose McLarney's collections of poems are Colorfast, Forage, and Its Day Being Gone, from Penguin Poets, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. She is coeditor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University of Georgia Press, and the journal Southern Humanities Review. Rose has been awarded fellowships by MacDowell and Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences; served as Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place; and is winner of the National Poetry Series, the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers' New Writing Award for Poetry, among other prizes. Her work has appeared in publications including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and The Oxford American. Currently, she is professor of creative writing at Auburn University.

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