false <![CDATA[Bad Bad]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180910626m/1091121.jpg 1091121 3 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. "come on the revulsion//the revulsion//// when ////you bring it home////like seafoam//when you bring it home.... ," she writes, in an ecstasy of encounter. Minnis addresses the inner needs of the poet--"the purpose of poetry is to seem as lifelike as possible so that you actually exist"--and is everywhere concerned with the denotation of that which is true and necessary to the true and necessary poet. "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......." 1077921 1 5 2007 Bad Bad total:96|5:41|4:34|3:19|2:2|1:0| 96 402 145 24 5 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 23:15:32 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 23:35:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 21:48:07 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 23:03:26 -0700 2008 confining structure—of his sentences. In Minnis's case, whe...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 26 09:36:42 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 09:37:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 10:20:45 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 10:24:31 -0700 2007 .................
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It really IS 'CHILDISH!' and 'DECADENT!' as the back of the book blurb adverts (subverts?)]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 16:08:26 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 15:31:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 08 19:38:31 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:41:57 -0700 2009
Minnis does it. While her form is intensely pleasing in that way that a new lover can be-everythin novel and unexpected, I was sometimes weary of it. I loved hearing her read in CO. She is deeply funny and i...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 08 15:14:17 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 15:10:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 23 18:19:48 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 18:20:25 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:05:59 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 17:06:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:03:41 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 00:07:34 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 15 17:23:27 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 07:01:17 -0800 2007 how the synthetic and trivial can make a menacing landscape...
the intrigue of surfaces...
typography...
the country of late and post and ever adolescence...
dominatrix voice!
why ".." is the oddest punctuation...
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