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A playful collection of poems reconfiguring iconic dialogue from classic American films to upend notions of love, wealth, gender, and consumption.
List of contents
Contents
I
INTRODUCTIONS
LAZINESS
VIPs
SUCCESS
LARCENY
HANDSOME
COMPLIMENTS
ROMANCE
FUN & GAMES
GOLDDIGGER
BOREDOM
GOODBYE
II
DARLING
YOU
BARGAINING
BUSINESS
SEDUCTION
ARRANGEMENTS
DEATH
DRINKING
FIGHTS
THREATS 1
REGRET
THREATS 2
MURDER
NERVES
BREAKDOWN
THE END
III
DEPRESSION
RICH
GENTLEMAN
PHILOSOPHIZING
SHOWDOWN
ICEBERG
ENGAGED
LOVE
MARRIED
GREATNESS
FAILURE
Acknowledgments
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
Poemland (Wave Books, 2009),
Zirconia (Fence Books, 2001),
Foxina (Seeing Eye Books, 2002) and
Bad Bad (Fence Books, 2007). She lives in Boulder, Colorado. She also writes screenplays.
Summary
A playful collection of poems reconfiguring iconic dialogue from classic American films to upend notions of love, wealth, gender, and consumption.
Foreword
- Galleys available
- Co-op available
- National print and online campaigns with galleys and review copies to literary outlets such as Bookforum, BOMB, Bustle, Paris Review, and others.
- Publicity campaign to feminist outlets and organizations such as Jezebel, Bitch, Refinery 29, and others.
- Author tour possible.
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"The work from Baby, I Don’t Care is slightly less dark . . . and somewhat funnier . . . Here Minnis re-establishes herself as perhaps our best, most biting, black-comic poet. Her poems sting."
—Kevin O'Rourke, Colorado Review
