Reviews
"...the poems in this short collection render familiar items unrecognizable in their sudden beauty and complexity. Filled with speakers who seek to transcend the cultural debris that surrounds them, Rigby's poems call on imaginative metaphors to explore the connection between the everyday and the philosophical..."--Kristina Marie Darling (Anti-Poetry.com, November 2009)
"...the thread with which these sixteen poems are sewn together can best be understood through Rigby's echo of the Surrealist poet Paul Eluard: 'there are rooms behind / the ones you know.' Both Eluard and Rigby suggest there is a familiar but intangible reality worthy of illumination through poetry, and a glimpse into this other world is the gift of Savage Machinery .."--Rebecah Pulsifer (OT!M, No. 1, July 26, 2008)
