Dale Going translates the elastic language of dancers rushing forward and apart, meditates on the feminist implications of keeping a journal ("a habit that doesn't require perfection"), and re-experiences the strange confluence of her own chemotherapy treatment with the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
Dale Going is a poet, book artist and founder of Em Press in Mill Valley, California. Her books include "As/Of the Whole" (San Francisco State University), "The View They Arrange" (Kelsey St. Press), "Leaves from a Gradual" (Potes & Poets) and two Em Press chapbooks, "Or Less" and "She Pushes With Her Hands." Em Press letterpress editions of poetry by women are in the special collections of university and public libraries and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Dale has received a California Arts Council Grant, the San Francisco State University Chapbook Award, fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the NY State Latin Teacher's Award at age 16 for her first publication, a translation from Virgil's Aenid. She has written & performed for poets' theater, taught book arts, curated an exhibit of artists' books by poets, co-founded the literary zine ROOMS and recreated it as a blog, written reviews and interviews, hosted a poetry radio show, and contributed text to the work of visual artists. She was born in upstate New York, where she summers in the Adirondacks, and lives in Mill Valley and Dos Rios, California.
