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Fabulosa

Fabulosa

Rigby, Karen

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1956907092
ISBN13: 9781956907094
Publisher: Jackleg Press
Published: Jun 10 2024
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Karen Rigby writes with fingers cocked like a gun. Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings, Fabulosa fibrillates with noir and glitz in these strange, seductive poems that are in conversation with a range of players from Dior to Endeavour Morse to Hieronymus Bosch. Shimmering with diamond-cut precision, Fabulosa underscores Rigby's observation that I never write / without measuring, each line / hooking a quicksilver hunger. There is no bloat in this book; it is exquisitely hewn. Underpinning the collection is a keen interest in cinema, fashion, feminism, transformation, and textuality (from ars poeticas to portmanteaus to ekphrastics). Seamed with goldshine and darkness, we find in these fireball poems a wilderness / glanced through the bull's eye. As the title suggests, Fabulosa is indeed absolutely fabulous! -Simone Muench

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