Fabulosa

<p>Karen Rigby writes with fingers cocked like a gun. Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings <em>Fabulosa</em> 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 <em>Fabulosa</em> 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 <em>Fabulosa</em> is indeed absolutely fabulous! -Simone Muench</p>