Praise for The “She” Series

“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

”Could it be that a shifting balance between two voices is the best way to enter a murmur of wings? Come, let yourself be unstrung by dream-logos, the surf in the distance kneeling and falling. The night is full of wonderwork: open the door of dark water and cross over the threshold.”
—Marsha de la O, author of Antidote for Night

”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