These Are the Women We Write About by Kayla King

These Are the Women We Write About

Kayla King’s These Are the Women We Write About is both dreamlike and mythic. Drawing on the intricate stories of Greco-Roman mythology, her words trace the edges of the celestial and interrogate the boundaries between the known and unknown.

King writes with fluid and graceful language, crafting images both fragile and poignant. Her examination, through poetry, of the female narrative in myth is striking and beautiful in equal measure.

Contents

• In Latin This Means Monument, or the Epithet of Naming Someone After They’re Gone
• remembered from something once read
• They Said You Couldn’t Remember, or Curse of Ursa Major
• the undefinable retrograde of mercury
• Witching Hour
• heartless vendettas long forgotten
• We Still Survive in the End
• This Will Be A Poem About Too Many Things, or What We Call Crossroads