The View They Arrange

Author: Dale Going

Publisher: Kelsey Street Press (1995)

Dale Going translates the language of dancers rushing forward and apart into an elastic poetic form. In this extended, newly unified space, she observes the everyday living arrangements of family and friends; recalls an experience of confluence of her own chemotherapy treatments with the nuclear accident at Chernobyl; and meditates on the feminist implications of keeping a journal ("a habit that doesn't require perfection"). Kathleen Fraser describes Going's writing as "cream-thick dream think, edible and langorous."