Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please? Body Fictions

Kelly L. Green is a freelance writer living in Ajax, Ontario.

This first collection of short fiction and poetry by Alberta writer
Goobie is ambitious, startling, and pointed. Her verbal imagery creates
visions of detachable, interchangeable, even invisible body parts,
multipurpose, and manfully assisting their human possessors in a quest
for physical and psychological equilibrium. Goobie’s writing forces
the reader to consider the objective and subjective significance of
hundreds of hackneyed mind/body allusions. From phantom limbs and
imagined amputations to the psychological abortion of a fetus of rage,
Goobie never lets us forget the connection between mind and matter.

Goobie’s experiences working with physically and sexually abused
teenagers have given her an unusual insight into both the betrayal and
the healing power of which the human body is capable. It is the
author’s own unique gift of translation, however, that enables the
reader to graft the powerful emotions she describes onto his/her own
psyche. This is a delightful and demanding work, requiring the
reader’s full participation. We hope to see more of Goobie in the
future.