Bøger af Kate Gale

We live in an age where to speak may not always be wise. Big Brother iswatching you as you call and as you write. So why not write something thatreally stirs up ideas? The enemy for most Americans, the one thing that makesour lives sordid and uneventful, is the mind numbing life we all live. If ourmind is too numb because we cannot turn off electronic stimulus long enoughto think, then where will good writing come from?The Los Angeles Review is the voice of Los Angeles, and the voice of thenation. We will not have one editor who chooses work based on theiridiosyncratic tastes, but instead will bring in a variety of editors for each issue.This year s editors are focusing on Language, Silence and Oppression."

Who was more alone than Medusa? Raped in Athena's temple, transformed into a monster, and banished into a cave, Medusa may be the ultimate example of victim blaming. In The Loneliest Girl, Kate Gale creates a powerful alternative narrative for Medusa and for all women who have carried guilt and shame-for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim. She offers a narrative in which women are the makers of the world-in which women find their way out from the cave of the Cisthene and into a world where they determine their own destiny.

"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the world around us." - Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate