Of Granddaughters and Mars - Paperback
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Donald Mace Williams' latest poetry collection explores family, Texas, grief, war, aging, animals music, and language. Using traditional forms, riddles, monologues, and translations, Of Granddaughters and Mars blends family tenderness, political outcry, and formal inventiveness.
Williams uses wit and emotional range to question what beauty, truth, and courage can still mean in a world shaped by tyranny and loss. The collection also features playful sequences about bugs and birds, a long poem titled "Zebulon" that reimagines explorer Zebulon Pike, and closing translations from German Romantic poets.
Donald Mace Williams is a retired newspaper writer and editor with a Ph.D. in Beowulfian prosody. His poems have appeared in five dozen magazines. Wolfe, his epic adaptation of Beowulf, set in the Old West, was released, along with his prose memoir, in Wolfe and Being Ninety. His poetry has also been collected in The Nectar Dancer and his translation of selected poems by Rainer Maria Rilke were released in 2025's Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A 150th Anniversary Reader. Williams is ninety-six and still writing. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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