{"product_id":"zirconia-bad-bad-9781944380113","title":"Zirconia ...................... Bad Bad","description":"\"Juvenile mockery of poetry and the American poetry establishment, as well as excited reverence for both...\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\"Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of extreme morbidity and anger.\"--Arielle GreenbergCollected in this volume are Chelsey Minnis's first two books\u003ci\u003e: Zirconia\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Alberta Prize) and\u003ci\u003e Bad Bad\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eZirconia\u003c\/i\u003e introduced a speaker described as \"half-smirking, half-weeping\" by the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\" This poet's rapt, driven affect and glazed wit heralded a new strategy in the mitigation of female self-hatred in poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\"Her poems take some getting used to.\"--Robert Strong\"Many won't find her . . . acceptable at all...--Cole SwensenShow Additional Fields\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChelsey 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 \u003ci\u003eBaby, I Don't Care, Poemland, Zirconia, Foxina, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBad Bad\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fence Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50659941548306,"sku":"9781944380113","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57216116-983f-47dd-8916-4e7fbc718eac.jpg?v=1733468404","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zirconia-bad-bad-9781944380113","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}