“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 have to say I am in love with this dreamy, astonishing, exquisite book.”

—Marcela Sulak, author of Mouth Full of Seeds

“Williams’s spare, moving, and illuminating debut poetry collection is written with rare feeling for silence, blankness, and the blurred reality of caring for a parent suffering from dementia…Absence is multi-dimensional in Williams’s collection; on the page, the use of white space allows the size and scope of this absence to expand and contract, all while emphasizing for readers silences and at times snowy landscapes.”
—Booklife—Editor’s Pick

“Phanopoeia, explained Ezra Pound, is ‘the throwing of an image on the mind’s retina’ on the ‘visual imagination.’ When she flits between wolves and space trash, glass eyes does, and ‘bruised skin of milk,’ Maria Williams calls forth that word—a heightened sense of taking it in from the passenger’s seat.”
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