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 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