Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse

Poems

Darcie Dennigan

Poets Out Loud

Pages: 84

Fordham University Press
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ISBN: 9780823228577
Published: 15 March 2008
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Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrates and laments that “we are but decaying.” Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms, these are poems where “the moon’s spritzing its perfumes and the phlegm is thick and fast” over cities and Starbucks and suburbs. The poet is in love with the rhythm of the man-made world, and “the rhythm is so strong sometimes / it blows up the room.”

Dennigan makes delightful poetry, a pure aural pleasure more willowly, and as various as language lived.---—Boston Review

“With a love for the dance of syntax and a delight in the polyphony of dictions both high
and low, Dennigan springs onto the contemporary poetry stage with a fresh original style. Her poetry is an exuberant celebration of language and insight.”

- —Mark Jarman

. . . Dennigan's verse in smart but not unkind, sensual without being icky.---—Indiana Review

Spitting associative sparks off both real and imagined landscapes, the poems in Corinna invite readers to excavate, associate, and riff off what's given."

OR "Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse is powered by conundrum, surprise, imagination, recklessness, wonderment, earnestness, and above all giant playfulness and smarts.

---—Cold Front Mag