elisabeth nicula reviewed Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis
Chelsey Minnis's new collection of poems follows the struggle of a flawed character in a …
"Look, it's been very hard to puppeteer myself / all these years!"
4 stars
Extravagant, funny, disturbed poetry, forming a narrative in one voice and one repeating structure through the book. Kinda like if a dissolute young 50s housewife was going out of her mind today? A love story but most often not very loving? Idk I thought it was pretty pleasurable and surprising.