"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"-- "Karen Fabiane's is a voice that is finally different--her melody an unselfconscious hipster's, but real, like music from the plastic radio duct-taped to the hot dog vendor's cart. It has a harmony that takes you deep into the librettos of the other inhabitants of her mind, or maybe the Street, or maybe those in the back seat of some old car parked outside the café--Sweet Sounds in the colors of the flesh and flower, slight hint of White Shoulders dressed in silk. This not-quite-scent is what her poems point to and allow you to experience. Read them. Be transported. Fold into a million places in time within a spell that remains unbroken by the journey." --Annie Sauter"--