The She Series: A Venice Correspondence
Praise...
Holaday Mason and Sarah Maclay's spirited, aptly-titled collaboration, The She Series: A Venice Correspondence, reads like a dream image that totally alters your day, and that, even days later, has everything to do with you. In these ghostly pages, She is, and is again—mesmerizing, gorgeously-wrought, and alone. She is desire—lushly so, wholly-present, and unrequited. And She is in touch with everything in this life, as in a dream—the way talking out loud, to somebody else, keeps it real.
--Ralph Angel, author of, Neither World & Your Moon
In this book the poetic voices of Holaday Mason and Sarah Maclay reveal a multifaceted universe—almost painfully private—where “She” appears as a dream-like composite of sexuality, longing, awareness and courage. This book is an unapologetic body, an incandescent house in the middle of the night. We read the poems of Mason and Maclay and we are mesmerized by what is born in-between: a third voice (an interlanguage) made of echoes, identities, silence, and sparks of humor. The voices converse in an oblique dialogue that creates a new space, a new, fragmented poem that keeps multiplying its meanings. It is in this sensual, forceful interlanguage where the reader gets immersed, transformed. Ultimately, where the reader becomes “She”.
--Marianno Zaro, Author of Tres Letras & The House at Mae Rim
Praise...
Holaday Mason and Sarah Maclay's spirited, aptly-titled collaboration, The She Series: A Venice Correspondence, reads like a dream image that totally alters your day, and that, even days later, has everything to do with you. In these ghostly pages, She is, and is again—mesmerizing, gorgeously-wrought, and alone. She is desire—lushly so, wholly-present, and unrequited. And She is in touch with everything in this life, as in a dream—the way talking out loud, to somebody else, keeps it real.
--Ralph Angel, author of, Neither World & Your Moon
In this book the poetic voices of Holaday Mason and Sarah Maclay reveal a multifaceted universe—almost painfully private—where “She” appears as a dream-like composite of sexuality, longing, awareness and courage. This book is an unapologetic body, an incandescent house in the middle of the night. We read the poems of Mason and Maclay and we are mesmerized by what is born in-between: a third voice (an interlanguage) made of echoes, identities, silence, and sparks of humor. The voices converse in an oblique dialogue that creates a new space, a new, fragmented poem that keeps multiplying its meanings. It is in this sensual, forceful interlanguage where the reader gets immersed, transformed. Ultimately, where the reader becomes “She”.
--Marianno Zaro, Author of Tres Letras & The House at Mae Rim