Fabulosa

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