White Ghosts, the debut by poet and novelist Katie Hale, is a collection of revealing, unflinching poems tracing maternal lines and difficult legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of America.
Through four hundred years of female migration, the poems in White Ghosts use art, music, and lyrical reworking of the curated space, to address white guilt: what is lost through generations, and what is passed on?
“This haunted,
haunting book is unflinching in its confrontation of history, and what it means
to own or be owned. " - Kim Moore
"Here is tenderness and rigour, beauty and truth-telling, in an engaging and ambitious debut.” – Carrie Etter