Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in

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) is an American

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. Her collections of poetry include ''Zirconia'', ''Bad Bad'', ''Poemland'', and ''Baby I Don't Care''. ''Zirconia'' won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry. She received a B. A. in English from the

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and studied at the

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. Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by

Arielle Greenberg Arielle Greenberg (born 1972) is a feminist poet and the poetry editor of ''Black Clock''. She is most renowned for naming and describing the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology ''Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics'', ...

, which she described as "a feminine,

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incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."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

Selected works

*
Zirconia
'. New York: Fence Books, 2001. *''Foxina''. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2002. *
Bad Bad
'. New York: Fence Books, 2007. *
Poemland
'. Seattle:

Wave Books Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. This independent publisher has published books by CAConrad, Don Mee ...

, 2009.
''Baby, I Don't Care''
Seattle:

, 2018.

References

External links

Boston Review, Jan/Feb 2009; Review of ''Bad Bad''Small Press Distribution; author page for Poemland''Wave Books author page
1970 births Living people American women poets 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1970s-stub