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Few recent books of poetry have had quite the impact of
Chelsea Minnis' breathtakingly elliptical
Zirconia
(Fence Books, 2001 -- followed by a chapbook,
Foxina, Seeing Eye Books, 2002).
But what else can one expect from work that one reviewer
describes as "direct mental
transcriptions of her craving to be released from the now... moments of decadent sexuality and unattainable fantasy"
(John Erhardt,
Rain Taxi) while another is driven to
speak of how "its tawdry, dreamy sparkle,
led me back to the days of Stevie Nicks, pegasus suncatchers and Seventeen magazine's prom issue. Minnis fearlessly
mines this terrain for all its faux glamour and real heartbreak"
(Arielle Greenberg,
Electronic Poetry Review). We may not know what pegasus suncatchers
are but we get the gist: this Colorado-based poet has invented a new emotional extremism. |
