McLarney, Rose

The Always Broken Plates of Mountains

ISBN: 9781935536192
New York, NY: Four Way Books, 2012. First Edition, Advance Reader Copy. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Rose McLarney to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The hills, stabbed with sumac,/ maple. I know/ the color is beautiful but/ this time of year, there is always/ a wounded feeling." (from "Autumn Again," pg. 10) A collection of poems by Rose McLarney, an acclaimed young American poet & professor of Appalachian heritage. As noted author Jane Brox notes in her laudatory blurb on back cover, "Rose McLarney's poems are work of the first order. Unsentimental, empathic, informed by her unerring eye and ear, they are rooted in a specific quarter of the earth and speak to the complexities of fidelity, devotion, desire, and the force of time." Trade-format softcover original, first edition, "Advance Reader Copy" as noted on sticker affixed over price code on back cover. On the title page, McLarney has hand-written & signed: "Thomas-/ Thank you for being perhaps my/ earliest (non-parental) supporter./ Your poetry is one of your many/ contributions to our region/ (signed) Rose M (underline)." "Thomas" is Thomas Rain Crowe, the Appalachian-born poet & publisher who was at the center of the Baby Beat Generation/ Second San Francisco Renaissance during the 1970s (see our book, Starting from San Francisco, item No. 3071, Deluxe Edition No. 3075). Crowe has long returned to & lived in rural North Carolina. A key collectible in the fresh and growing McLarney oeuvre, with very significant regional poet-to-poet association & provenance. In very fine condition with only very slight wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps at corners of a few page leaves. Very Fine. [Item #3668]

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