Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse: Poems

Darcie Dennigan

Fordham University Press, 2008 - Poetry - 66 pages

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."

Contents

• Sense a Second Heart: 3
• The New Mothers: 9
• StarryEyed: 16
• The Feeling of the World As a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical: 23
• three Arearea: 33
• four Orienteering in the Land of the New Pirates: 53

About the author

DARCIE DENNIGAN's work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Forklift Ohio, H_NGM_N, and Tin House. She lives in West Hollywood, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse: Poems; Poets out loud
• Author: Darcie Dennigan
• Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0823228568, 9780823228560
• Length: 66 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General