{"id":2837,"date":"2013-08-23T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2837"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:09:33","slug":"the-always","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-always\/","title":{"rendered":"The Always Broken Plates of Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2435\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Always Cover\" width=\"432\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover.jpg 432w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover-212x318.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Always-Front-Cover-250x375.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 80 pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0\u00a0978-1-935536-19-2<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781935536192&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><br \/>\n[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>The Always Broken Plates of Mountains<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Rose McLarney<\/h2>\n<p>Set in the Appalachian landscape, Rose McLarney\u2019s debut collection, <em>The Always Broken Plates of Mountains<\/em>, gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical. \u201cThere is a tenderness that persists\u201d as McLarney explores what it means to be faithful\u2014to the land, to one\u2019s heritage, to one another. \u201cI\u2019ll choose a love, as I choose my home,\/ an old white farmhouse, not far from where I grew up,\u201d one speaker declares. And while the poems often feel as if they exist outside of time, they possess a quiet immediacy, \u201cLove always shot\/ with the feeling this is the last of it.\/ Always told to outgrow\/ the mountains that would block your view.\u201d<br \/>\nMcLarney, a deft storyteller and graceful observer of the lyric moment, leads us into this \u201ccountry for the ones who have stayed\/ true to self sufficiency and silence,\u201d and guides us through what is so lovingly built and what is left behind, what we hold onto and what we cannot keep from changing. \u201cWe are so harmed we are beautiful,\u201d she writes, \u201cthe buildings abandoned by paint, the now unfarmed fields,\u201d\u2014but even through divorce and drought, even as the cattle market is turned into condos and the family land is clear-cut for the interstate, poem after poem reminds us \u201cit\u2019s only after the freeze\/ that the trees can keep their needles, \/ no matter how you shake them.\u201d <em>The Always Broken Plates of Mountains<\/em> honors the people who live and love and lose on the land, trying to preserve it by telling their stories while \u201cleaving no\/ fingerprints, making no mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Domestic,&#8221; from <em>The Always Broken Plates of Mountains<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>The sows are in heat, squealing and pink.<br \/>\nThe wild boar comes from the forest<br \/>\nto batter at their pen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 74%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">I go out and smash the ice<br \/>\non the trough. The water<br \/>\nbreaks free. This takes<br \/>\na pick ax. Wielding it, I feel wild.<\/p>\n<p>But the only strength in this story<br \/>\nis the fences&#8217;. Not even boars are wild &#8211;<br \/>\nimported for hunting a hundred years ago,<br \/>\ncrossing the sea in a rich man&#8217;s crate.<\/p>\n<p>When I hang up the pick ax<br \/>\nit freezes to the nail, clinging as I do,<br \/>\nmaking my living elsewhere and<\/p>\n<p>returning to farms after sunset,<br \/>\nthe barns symbols<br \/>\njust discernable in the dark.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/rose-mclarney\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 80 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0\u00a0978-1-935536-19-2 Add to Cart [\/column] The Always Broken Plates of Mountains Rose McLarney Set in the Appalachian landscape, Rose McLarney\u2019s debut collection, The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, gives voice to a chorus of speakers, who are at once plainspoken, reverent, and musical. \u201cThere is a tenderness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18611,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2837\/revisions\/18611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}