Rubble Masonry

"These compact and lyrical essays could have been written by no one save Rose McLarney. Her training in poetry-a pitch-perfect ear and metaphoric virtuosity-serves her investigation of expansive and braided topics in an original and fascinating book." - Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs "What a set list of musings in Rubble Masonry, with its peerless nuance and quirks! Peep the terrain of McLarney's wide and mighty curiosity. Rubble Masonry is impressively splendid." - Rodney Terich Leonard, author of Sweetgum & Lightning "Reading Rubble Masonry, I was inundated by new possibility. I relearned, loving the new possibilities for the lyric 'I,' just as, like McLarney, I wondered, 'What can I come closer to calling mine?' A spellbinding read; I am full of praise." - Sally Keith, author of Two of Everything "This collection of startling, deeply original linked essays, with their lush, specific imagery and high-flying associative leaps, provides a meditation on the past in an attempt to understand the bewildering present. Rubble Masonry provides a space for contemplation-and, ultimately, for renewal." - Charlotte Pence, author of Code