{"product_id":"zirconia-bad-bad-paperback","title":"Zirconia ...................... Bad Bad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChelsey Minnis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAriana Reines\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected in this volume are Chelsey Minnis's first two books: Zirconia (winner of the Alberta Prize) and Bad Bad. Zirconia introduced a speaker described as \"half-smirking, half-weeping\" by the Village Voice. 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.\" Bad Bad ushers Zirconia's juvenile persona into unblushing womanhood. The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish, taking on with equivocal weightlessness the lexicons and trimmings of fashion, as it applies to the Self and the garments that clothe the Self, and self-obliteration. Minnis addresses the inner needs of the poet--\"the purpose of poetry is to seem as lifelike as possible so that you actually exist.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760094118176,"sku":"9781944380113","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aff908cd11df2972277591d63227086d.webp?v=1780171475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/zirconia-bad-bad-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}