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A review by mattdube
Baby, I Don't Care by Chelsey Minnis
4.0
My brother recommended this one, a collection of poems where Minnis' first acknowledgement is to Turner Classic Movies.... Minnis is writing a kind of poem here, mostly 35 live poems, broken into five line stanzas where each line stands on its own, as some sort of nuts declarative sentence in the voice of a femme fatale addressing the dummy who's fallen for her. So there's a lot of 1940s talk about sex, chandeliers, champagne, and punches to the face.
Others have noted that the three sections of the book maybe chart the progress of this mutually abusive relationship-- Minnis is really in control in section 1, and in the 3rd, she wants the relationship to continue even if the other partner has lost some interest. But I'm not sure that's a reading that is especially rich. To me, the book is maybe best a poem at a time, or even a line at a time, as Minnis kind of smashes one hard boiled sentence against another, often non-sequitors, and seeing what sparks result. They might make you cringe, maybe you'll laugh, etc, but there's something here, to be sure.
Others have noted that the three sections of the book maybe chart the progress of this mutually abusive relationship-- Minnis is really in control in section 1, and in the 3rd, she wants the relationship to continue even if the other partner has lost some interest. But I'm not sure that's a reading that is especially rich. To me, the book is maybe best a poem at a time, or even a line at a time, as Minnis kind of smashes one hard boiled sentence against another, often non-sequitors, and seeing what sparks result. They might make you cringe, maybe you'll laugh, etc, but there's something here, to be sure.