{"product_id":"bad-bad-9780977106493","title":"Bad Bad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of extreme morbidity and anger.\"-Arielle Greenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her poems take some getting used to.\"-Robert Strong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Many won't find her . . . acceptable at all...-Cole Swensen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreface 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople say \"nothing new\" or \"the death of the author\" but, I am new and I am not dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntellectual, anachronistic, superserious: I'm not going to start crying because \"experimental\" and I'm not going to start crying because \"not experimental\"...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI just want to piss down my own leg...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd should everyone be bored like narcosis?....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry should be \"uh huh\" like...\"baby has to have it...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf anyone thinks they need to write reviews, teach classes, edit magazines, or translate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebooks in order to write good poetry...then maybe they should just take a rest from it... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you try to write a good poem again and again for years and years and receive no awards, no money, no nothing...then you're happy...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd all these blurbs are for s-. Like if I were to carry around a turd and pretend it is my baby...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet I worship is Edward Dorn, because I adore his disgust...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever he says feels like art...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry is for crap since there's no money or fast cars in it...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, in the thighs...I feel it...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHELSEY MINNIS is the author of Zirconia, winner of the 2001 Alberta Prize from Fence Books. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a native of Littleton, Colorado. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fence Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376959164690,"sku":"9780977106493","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a8bd3ab-6fa3-4e98-920f-b76ee592da78.jpg?v=1728612022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bad-bad-9780977106493","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}