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Books

  • Book cover titled "Colorfast" by Rose McLarney. The cover features a crumpled red fabric or shirt on a textured beige background, with a red textured section at the bottom and white text.

    “Colorfast is magnificent…this book is for us all.”

    -Rebecca Gayle Howell

    “Exquisite . . . McLarney is rare, her vision rare…”

    -Joanna Klink

    Colorfast
  • Book cover titled 'Forage' by Rose McLarney, featuring a floral arrangement with various flowers, leaves, and a small animal, set against a black background.

    “It’s refreshing to find this much courage on the page, at a time when we need it the most.”
     -Van Jordan

    “…poems of fierce, edgy charm, of despair and forgetting. Beauty, that lives here too." 
     -Marianne Boruch

    Forage
  • A boat and scattered bricks floating on water with sunlight reflecting off the surface and a Penguin logo in the top right corner. Book cover for 'Its Day Being Gone' by Rose McLareney, featuring a "Winner" award badge.

    “Her important poems sing not just with the ‘the somber percussion / of feed in buckets,’ but also with the lyric wisdom of the best poetry.” 

    - Andrew Hudgins

    Its Day Being Gone
  • Cover of a book titled 'A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia,' edited by Rose McLarney and Laura-Gray Street, featuring a gold silhouette of a flowering plant and a butterfly.

    This combined literary and natural history anthology is a guide to identifying 60 selected species of Southern Appalachia, one of the most biodiverse areas on earth, and to knowing the place in broader, poetic senses.

    A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
  • Black and white cover of a book titled "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains" by Rose McLarney. The cover features a photograph of two draft horses working in a field, harnessed together, with a man standing behind them.

    “Rose McLarney’s poems are work of the first order. Unsentimental, empathic, informed by her unerring eye and ear, they… speak to the complexities of fidelity, devotion, desire, and the force of time.”

    - Jane Brox

     

    The Always Broken Plates of Mountains

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