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

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

Minnis, Chelsey
Reines, Ariana

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1944380116
ISBN13: 9781944380113
Publisher: Fence Books
Published: Aug 13 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.70 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

This poet's rapt, driven affect and glazed wit heralded a new strategy in the mitigation of female self-hatred in poetry.


Collected 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. Bad Bad ushers Zirconia's juvenile persona into 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. Minnis addresses the inner needs of the poet-the purpose of poetry is to seem as lifelike as possible so that you actually exist.

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