About the Book The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish, taking on with equivocal weightlessness the lexicons and trimmings of fashion. Book Synopsis Decadent! Childish! . . . indulgent and melancholy . . . moments of extreme morbidity and anger.-Arielle Greenberg Her poems take some getting used to.-Robert Strong Many wont find her . . . acceptable at all...-Cole Swensen Preface 1 People say nothing new or the death of the author but, I am new and I am not dead. Intellectual, anachronistic, superserious: Im not going to start crying because experimental and Im not going to start crying because not experimental... I just want to piss down my own leg... And should everyone be bored like narcosis?.... Poetry should be uh huh like...baby has to have it... If anyone thinks they need to write reviews, teach classes, edit magazines, or translate books in order to write good poetry...then maybe they should just take a rest from it... If you try to write a good poem again and again for years and years and receive no awards, no money, no nothing...then youre happy... And all these blurbs are for s-. Like if I were to carry around a turd and pretend it is my baby... The poet I worship is Edward Dorn, because I adore his disgust... Whatever he says feels like art... Poetry is for crap since theres no money or fast cars in it... But, in the thighs...I feel it... Review Quotes Like Liberace, its so bad, its good, and it works its reverse psychology on the reader almost immediately. Underneath its Metallica typeface and juvenile hearts, Bad Bad chronicles a love-hate relationship with American poetry and the academic universe in which it too often resides...From the sixty-eight prefaces that begin the book to the Anti-Vitae in which years are marked by rejected grant applications, unpublished poems, and critiques of her work by future poet laureates, Minnis uses the Masters tools to dismantle the Masters house. Moreover, she throws a new wrench into the toolbox. After the prefaces, which are made up of statements split both mid-line and end-line by a traditional use of ellipsis, Minnis returns to the extended ellipses that punctuate her first book, Zirconia . Hesitation, resolution, omission, inclusion, decoration, and punctuation, the ellipses are...the bullet-holes that remain after Minniss speaker takes shots at the reader. -Sasha Steensen, The Boston Review I had a necklace made that says BAD BAD, bought five copies of that book... -Ann Key, The Poetry Society UK News Her body of work-spanning five books-is irreverent, darkly humorous, and bitingly seductive, often mimicked, and still, entirely distinct...In her words, she writes aggro poems, and yet, is something of an enigma...Her work gets passed on by word of mouth. Cultish fandom ensues. -Ana Cecilia Alvarez, affidavit Juvenile mockery of poetry and the American poetry establishment, as well as excited reverence for both, are the themes of [Chelsey] Minniss second collection. -Publishers Weekly About the Author Chelsey Minnis grew up in Denver. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is the author of Zirconia (Fence Books, 2001), Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002), Bad Bad (Fence Books, 2007), Poemlan d (Wave Books, 2009), and Baby, I dont care (Wave Books, 2018), She lives in Boulder, Colorado. She also writes screenplays.