pKaren Rigby writes with fingers cocked like a gun. Deliciously inventive in its linguistic unfurlings, emFabulosaem 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, emFabulosaem 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, emFabulosaem is indeed absolutely fabulous! -Simone Muenchp