Poetry. Bad Bad moves the unabashedly juvenile persona elliptically constructed in ZIRCONIA into a seriously amusing, unblushing womanhood. The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish, taking on with equivocal weightlessness the lexicons and trimmings of fashion, as it applies to the Self and the garments that clothe the Self, and self-obliteration, as experienced through immersion in the delights and disgust of the Other. Minnis addresses the inner needs of the poet and is everywhere concerned with the denotation of that which is true and necessary to the true and necessary poet.

Author City: BOULDER, CO USA

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 POEMLAND (Wave Books, 2009), ZIRCONIA (Fence Books, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and BAD BAD (Fence Books, 2007). She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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