White Ghosts by Katie Hale Arvis Viguls From meditations on the glimpsed

From meditations on the glimpsed and the fleeting — presences so small they “slip through cracks in the day” — to ruminations on some of the most pressing concerns of our time

abandoned villages

including the Brothers Poem

It explores processes of destruction and healing

White Ghosts by Katie Hale Arvis Viguls From meditations on the glimpsedWhite Ghosts, the debut collection by poet and novelist Katie Hale, traces maternal lines, and the legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of America, through revealing, unflinching poems. Travelling deep into an intimate history that spans both sides of the Atlantic, Hale unravels the language haunting those narratives we choose to tell in official versions through museum labels and civic statues and in handed down stories.