Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse Darcie Dennigan $46.00 ISBN: 9780823228560 Book (Hardcover) Fordham University Press 84 pages March 2008 Quantity:

“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, author of Epistles “A powerfully original poet—one whose idiosyncratic power could not be learned or taught.”—Alice Fulton “Dennigan’s poems are deliciously specific in their strangeness: her Saint Mary ‘cries Type O blood from her left eye.’ This is an exuberantly unpredictable debut.” —Matthea Harvey “Dennigan’s poems are reckless, self-generating fantasies which retain the high stakes of the experiential world. She gets the big go-ahead to lead her poetic generation back into the world, to charge and change it with satire, vision and hope.” —Tony Hoagland 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.” DARCIE DENNIGAN was one of four recipients of “Discovery”/The Nation poetry prizes. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Forklift Ohio, H_NGM_N, and Tin House. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

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