Something Whole by Colorado poet Jessica Rigney is a wonderful meld of concrete images, houses (with white trim, with saffron trim), peeling and chopping carrots, a patchwork box in a shaft of light, with fantastical swirls of the Spirit world and sensuous hints of eroticism tying the “real” world to the mystical. This is a poetry of Longing, a poetry of Desire, as flights of ecstasy and epiphanies abound. Winging into multi-textured Space and uncountable Time, you will want to read this work again and again, each time discovering Something New.
–Pamela Twining, Woodstock beat poet and author of i have been a river…, utopians & madmen, and A Thousand Years of Wanting
To experience the flavor of Elysium is a rare thing. Jessica’s work displays the exquisite imperfections of our utopias, and as close as ever you may taste to the hot breath of Poetics.
–Marcus If, loudmouth anarchist mountain poet, founder of Beyond Academia Free Skool, and author of An Obvious Ruse
The poems in Something Whole, as in all of Jessica Rigney’s works, have the sound of utterances from a deep, profound soul. This is not to say hers is a disembodied voice from beyond. In fact, the wisdom and longing of the body is always and intensely present. Some of these poems have had previous lives and different manifestations, for Jessica’s artistic process is an iterative one, as she returns to discover layers of meaning in new experiments over time. Word and sound and image creations have been birthed in print, photography, painting and visual art, film, vocal recordings, even in steel. This collection is a welcome iteration in the body of work by a restless and broadly ranging mind, spirit, and soul, always fully embodied in passionate attention to the human experience.
–Thomas A. Thomas, author of Getting Here, a collection of poems
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