{"product_id":"of-granddaughters-and-mars-paperback","title":"Of Granddaughters and Mars - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Mace Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection spans political outcry, Martian speculation, Texas landscapes, aging, grief, and exuberant love for grandchildren, music, animals, and language. Using traditional forms, it links personal memory and family tenderness with tyranny, war, technology, and death, asking what beauty, truth, and courage can still mean. Later sequences play with bugs and birds in witty monologues, and with Anglo-Saxon-style riddles that personify forces like water, speech, time, and death as double-edged presences in human life. The long poem \"Zebulon\" reimagines explorer Zebulon Pike, probing flawed heroism, misreading, and the obsessive lure of sources and summits. The volume closes with formal translations and adaptations of German Romantic poets, extending its concerns with love, suffering, reconciliation, fate, and the power and danger of words themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Mace Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired newspaper writer and editor with a Ph.D. in Beowulfian prosody. His poems have appeared in five dozen magazines. \u003ci\u003eWolfe\u003c\/i\u003e, his epic adaptation of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the Old West, was released, along with his prose memoir, in \u003ci\u003eWolfe and Being Ninety. \u003c\/i\u003eHis poetry has also been collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Nectar Dancer \u003c\/i\u003eand his translation of selected poems by Rainer Maria Rilke were released in 2025's \u003ci\u003ePoems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A 150th Anniversary Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e Williams is ninety-six and still writing. He lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48393830269149,"sku":"9781965766835","price":21.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/TVY0HCWQHE9781965766835.webp?v=1787155704","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/of-granddaughters-and-mars-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}