Reviews of My Favorite Apocalypse

“Anyone who claims to love poetry and isn’t seduced by this book within a handful of pages is either a liar or in a deep, dreamless, tuneless coma. She writes some of the best lines in contemporary poetry.” —Southern Indiana Review

“This is a rare collection that begs to be read all in one sitting…Lit by the incandescent glow of Rosemurgy’s fierce intelligence and acidic wit, these poems are driven by eerily precise, often rhetorical language that self-consciously swerves from the academic, to the lyrical, to the vernacular. The result is poems both deeply satisfying—for they speak so directly to contemporary mores—and deeply unsettling—in that, as the ghost-narrator of ‘The Return to Skin’ says, they ‘rephrase hunger and desire as questions.’” —Shout Magazine

 “My Favorite Apocalypse is an outstanding debut, the reader is graced by poems so skilled and so singular, there’s not one to overlook.” —American Book Review

“A witty, sexy collection….following in the footsteps of Plath (and Duhamel). —Rain Taxi Review of Books

“Catie Rosemurgy is best when she speaks outright. ‘Show don’t tell,’ goes the old mandate, but Rosemurgy understands the power of telling directly. Here, she does so with a clear, authentic, compelling voice.” —Billy Collins

“Anyone fearful of prodigious imagination should get out of the way of My Favorite Apocalypse fast. Catie Rosemurgy is coming like a steam-roller. . . . She is bluesy, Plathy, magnificently unabashed, yet possessed of real gifts for rhapsody and tenderness. The reader who is not hers after twenty pages needs a blood transfusion.” —Rodney Jones

“My Favorite Apocalypse is full of wonders. It has a confiding, urgent, lit-up tone. These poems whisper, croon, lip sync, and shout about what women and girls contemplate in the privacy of their minds: promises, cravings, divinations, and their surprise at how our skins barely contain us as we blaze through our days.” —Amy Gerstler

“My Favorite Apocalypse is seductive: I couldn’t stop reading such luscious, insouciant work. Catie Rosemurgy has the ability ‘to knock life unconscious with a phrase,’ and this stunning gift is surely one of poetry’s deepest powers.” —Alice Fulton