"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"--