Its Day Being Gone
Its Day Being Gone by Rose McLarney, published by Penguin on May 27, 2014, is a poetry collection that delves into the complexities of memory and loss. This edition comprises 112 pages and is presented in English. McLarney’s work is noted for its vivid imagery, reflecting her experiences in southern Appalachia while exploring themes of grief and the narratives that shape our understanding of the past.
Readers will find a diverse exploration of memory through a series of poems that intertwine contemporary ghost stories with reflections on cultural connections between Appalachia and Latin America. The collection examines how folktales evolve over time and how personal recollections are formed. McLarney’s poems invite contemplation on the impact of modernization on these rich landscapes and the stories that define them, ultimately posing questions about the ways we perceive and construct our environments.
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Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Robert Wrigley
Rose McLarney has won acclaim for image-rich poems that explore her native southern Appalachia and those who love and live and lose on it. Her second collection broadens these investigations in poems that examine the shape-shifting quality of memory, as seen in folktales that have traveled across oceans and through centuries, and in how we form recollections of our own lives. An opening sequence presents contemporary ghost stories: men who gather at dawn in the gas station parking lots of small towns; the mountain lion that paces the edge of a receding tree line. A middle section draws connections between Appalachia and Latin America, places that share qualities of biological and cultural richness—places that are threatened by modernization. A final sequence retells the stories of earlier poems, posing questions about how we construct our landscapes and frame our views.
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