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  <name><![CDATA[Chelsey Minnis]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Bad Bad]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bad Bad moves the unabashedly juvenile persona elliptically constructed in Zirconia into a seriously amusing, un - blushing 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. &quot;come on the revulsion//the revulsion//// when ////you bring it home////like seafoam//when you bring it home.... ,&quot; she writes, in an ecstasy of encounter. Minnis addresses the inner needs of the poet--&quot;the purpose of poetry is to seem as lifelike as possible so that you actually exist&quot;--and is everywhere concerned with the denotation of that which is true and necessary to the true and necessary poet. &quot;it is a poem//which is a trough////where you can make your reputation////as a stiff///anyway, I am not trying to be human anymore//////I am trying to be smart....in the head....like a pissant.......&quot;]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[Zirconia]]>
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    <![CDATA[Chelsey Minnis's formal invention and wild personae represent a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry. Zirconia's female speaker is by turns fatigued, charmed, wishful, battered, sly, perverse, and omnipotent. These poems engage a material world not unlike ours yet featuring a phantasmagorically elliptical relationship to the dimension of real action. Her speaker is detached, but alive to the poignancy of detachment, and through the &quot;silver lips of a feverish child&quot; invites connectivity by means of tenderness and brutality. Long pauses, enforced by strings of gemlike punctuation, allow for the reader's digestion of hilarious, frightened, sometimes frightening substance. One is compelled to follow trails of feminine intuition, savagery, ennui, fantasy, and intimacy to their diabolical, fruitful conclusions. Zirconia is accessible, confrontational, hilarious, occasionally shocking, never ever dull, and often extremely moving.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
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    <![CDATA[Poemland]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. <em>Poemland </em>alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous.</p>  <p><em>If you open your mouth to start to complain I will fill it with whipped cream . . .</em></p>  <p><em>There is a floating sadness nearby . . .</em></p>  <p><strong>Chelsey Minnis</strong> is the author of three previous collections. A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.</p>]]>
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