White Doe by Maria Williams

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My brilliant and beautiful father suffered from a slow onset of dementia. Despite the grief from losing our daily conversations and his sonorous laugh, his memory loss became a rich and life-changing experience for me, in which I learned that losing your memory opens the door for something else. The poems ask, "Who are we now?" In the case of my father, he seemed to become light itself.

Winner of the Verse Daily Prize, White Doe travels the landscape of dementia, a fragmented, snowy tundra where forgetting is a journey toward self-discovery. Follow the speaker and her father as they traverse the fractured effects the disease has on language and family and experience the wonder of being in a world that exists for a moment and forever.

WHITE DOE
September 2024
Trade paper / 6” x 9” / 78 pages / $18 / Kindle $7.95
ISBN 9798987954171
Distribution through Ingram
Contact: rt@saddleroadpress.com

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Ruth Thompson
Saddle Road Press
Freeville, NY

“White Doe has it all—image, metaphor, line, formal innovation and risk, emotional stakes—and I’ve never read anything like it. I say this as a fan and an editor."
—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

“Maria Williams’ White Doe deftly reveals the arrangements of human grief. The poems sharply illuminate what cannot be enough against the possibility of what must be. Out of the memory of fields, birds, and light emerges the gift of revelation.”
— E. J. Koh, author of The Liberators and The Magical Language of Others

"I am in love with this dreamy, astonishing, exquisite book." 
—Marcela Sulak, author of Mouth Full of Seeds