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Madame X
Poetry
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
2012
by Canarium Books
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Madame X is Darcie Dennigan’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to her celebrated 2008 collection Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse and it has already found loads of well-deserved critical acclaim. Dennigan has a powerful command of language, and is not afraid to warp the form of poems in distinct, difficult, and effective ways. She has a knack for constructing poetic monologues in sets of conversational paragraphs, punctuated with extensive ellipses and words that reveal themsel...more
Madame X is Darcie Dennigan’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to her celebrated 2008 collection Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse and it has already found loads of well-deserved critical acclaim. Dennigan has a powerful command of language, and is not afraid to warp the form of poems in distinct, difficult, and effective ways. She has a knack for constructing poetic monologues in sets of conversational paragraphs, punctuated with extensive ellipses and words that reveal themsel...more
Things to consider while reading Darcie Dennigan’s Madame X:
1. The cover art is by Carl Dimitri—he also lays claim to the cover image for her chapbook The Dept. of Ephebic Dreamery. In both instances the image invites texture that (I think) wholly mimics the texture of the poetry. The woman’s carmine nakedness against puttied and scaled white. She is nowhere and everywhere as the poetry is naturally strange in its place, a place we recognize but seek to forget.
2. “The Youngest Thing Living in L...more
1. The cover art is by Carl Dimitri—he also lays claim to the cover image for her chapbook The Dept. of Ephebic Dreamery. In both instances the image invites texture that (I think) wholly mimics the texture of the poetry. The woman’s carmine nakedness against puttied and scaled white. She is nowhere and everywhere as the poetry is naturally strange in its place, a place we recognize but seek to forget.
2. “The Youngest Thing Living in L...more
I gotta read this again before I give it any sort of rating. It's marvelous and weird but doesn't always hold together.
Read a borrowed copy from a friend; upon finishing, immediately had to buy my own.
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