Karen Rigby’s FABULOSA

“Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being. Each time we enter its word-woven and musical invocation, we give ourselves over to a different mode of knowing: to poetry’s knowing, and to the increase of existence it brings, unlike any other.”  — Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

I decided this morning to count my blog-reviews for 2024. Thirty-three thus far (fewer than I thought!). As this is week 41 of the year — or is it 42? — I’m 9 reviews behind. This is doable. For today, here’s a link to my most recent review at Escape Into Life (EIL). I have an additional review there that never got linked to the blog:  At the Edge of a Thousand Years, by Matt Hohner.

Some poets and some books stand out for me, but all of them have had their effect — to borrow from Jane Hirshfield again, each has had a part in mapping the terrain of my year of reading poetry.

So, with about 10 weeks left to the year, expect to see a flurry of reviews, or — barring actual reviews — shout-outs for poetry books. Maybe those read in August?? See, doable.

Click on the link below to see my review of Karen Rigby’s Fabulosa. And thank you for reading poetry!