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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Rose McLarney's fourth collection of poems, Colorfast, reckons with fading and bleeding away, with the gray of aging and the gray areas to which truths are relegated, with absences and the silence of women's voices left out of accounts of the past. McLarney elegizes stories from her girlhood and memories of her mother, considers omissions from Appalachian cultural history, and offers a series of poems presented as caretaking instructions for a house, for animals, for other humans, for her future self, and for the earth"--
