Poetry. In DANCING BEARS, each line draws the reader forward to the next. Ms. Fabiane's complex images are both whimsical and haunting. DANCING BEARS leaves the reader longing for a time when the rigidity of the day-to-day grind was not so ever-present. The poems in this collection range from sensual to tragic to vaguely whimsical while leading the reader down a twisting path marked with a bit of the macabre.

Author City: TROY, NY USA

Karen Fabiane was born in 1949 in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She was part of the Manhattan downtown scene during the 1970s and 80s, making music, writing and performing poetry, and painting. Her poems have been published in small press journals since 1975; her paintings have been exhibited in Seattle, New York City, Washington, DC, and the Capital District of New York (Albany environs) since 1978. She moved from Brooklyn to Delaware County in 1989 and currently lives in Troy, New York.