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This poem/visual art piece is part of a decades-long collaborative project pairing my poems with collage art by Marie Carbone, which I have Marie's permission to use. Created in intentional or accidental relationship to each other, the poems and collages are not equivalences or illustrations of their partnered art; they are extensions of a conversation, a palimpsest in which we each often speak over each other or at cross-purposes to make new meanings.
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Dale Going’s new books are "The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster," awarded the Codhill Press Guest Editor Selection, and "For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings" (Albion Books). "Sonnets of Succor and Sorrow, "a manuscript of her collaboration with collage artist Marie Carbone, was a finalist for Fence Books’ 2025 Ottoline Prize. Her work has been supported by the Fund for Poetry, California Arts Council, and Residency Fellowships at Yaddo, Watermill Center, Wedding Cake House, and Djerassi. Recent journal publications include Annulet, BlazeVOX, Interim, New American Writing, Posit, VOLT, and others. She lives in New York City.
Marie Carbone is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her collage art has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Center and other San Francisco Bay Area venues, in literary journals (BlazeVOX, Equinox, Feral, Five Fingers Review, LandLocked, Milk Press, Posit, Rougarou, Sea to Sky Review, Star 82 Review, VOLT, Wild Roof Journal and others), as book covers, broadsides, artists' books, and projections for poetry readings and theater performances. As a classical pianist, harpsichordist and music educator, her particular interest is the music of women composers. She has composed and performed soundtracks and soundscapes for film, theater, museum exhibitions, modern dance and ballet. She lives in Sausalito, CA.