Zirconia ...................... Bad Bad

"Juvenile mockery of poetry and the American poetry establishment, as well as excited reverence for both..."--Publishers Weekly"Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of extreme morbidity and anger."--Arielle GreenbergCollected in this volume are Chelsey Minnis's first two books: Zirconia (winner of the Alberta Prize) and Bad Bad. Zirconia introduced a speaker described as "half-smirking, half-weeping" by the Village Voice. Minnis heralded the gurlesque, a term coined for the occasion and defined as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy." This poet's rapt, driven affect and glazed wit heralded a new strategy in the mitigation of female self-hatred in poetry.
"Her poems take some getting used to."--Robert Strong"Many won't find her . . . acceptable at all...--Cole SwensenShow Additional Fields

Author: Chelsey Minnis
Publisher: Fence Books
Published: 08/13/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781944380113
ISBN10: 1944380116
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss

About the Author
Chelsey Minnis was born in Dallas and grew up in Denver. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of Baby, I Don't Care, Poemland, Zirconia, Foxina, and Bad Bad. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.