Chelsey Minnis
Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in Dallas, Texas) [1] is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include Zirconia, Bad Bad and Poemland. Zirconia won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry.[2]
Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."[3]
Bibliography
- Zirconia. New York, NY: Fence Books, 2001.
- Foxina. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2002.
- Bad Bad. New York: Fence Books, 2007.
- Poemland. Seattle: Wave Books, 2009.
References
- ↑ Library of Congress authority file
- ↑ 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry Archived May 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Arielle Greenberg, "Some Notes on the Origin of the (Term) Gurlesque," Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, ed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books, 2010, p. 2
External links
- Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2009; Review of Bad Bad
- Small Press Distribution; author page for 'Poemland
- Wave Books author page
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