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

1. ^ Library of Congress authority file
2. ^ 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry
3. ^ 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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