Poetry. "In these fifteen poems, we have the privilege of glimpsing the poet with an already unique voice and a natural panache for the lyric...the poems move imagistically, but have a way of opening out even as they hone in on precise details. The result is lyrically taut poetry that never shies away from the complex and contradictory movements of the imagination.... The poems in FESTIVAL BONE are beautiful, startling, and unsettling. Like any good chapbook, it will whet your appetite and leave you hungry for more."—Brian Barker, American Book Review

Author City: GILBERT, AZ USA

Karen Rigby is the author of CHINOISERIE (Ahsahta Press, 2012) and the chapbooks Savage Machinery (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and FESTIVAL BONE (Adastra Press, 2004). An NEA literature fellow, she has been published in Washington Square, Black Warrior Review, Best New Poets 2008, and other journals. Rigby is a cofounder of Cerise Press and a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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excerpt: "Sunflower" @ Verse Daily