New Book :: The Loneliest Girl
The Loneliest Girl
Poetry by Kate Gale
University of New Mexico Press, February 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6369-5
Paperback, 88pp; $18.95
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.
