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

Product details

• Authors: Karen Rigby
• Publisher: JackLeg Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2024
• EAN: 9781956907094
• ISBN: 978-1-956907-09-4
• No. of pages: 76
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 125 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama