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The American Poetry Review (Digital)

The American Poetry Review (Digital)

1 Issue, May/June 2019

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REWIRING THE GENDERED GAZE

A review of three books
AP2 Books Chelsey Minnis, Baby I Don’t CarePaperback, 272 pagesWave Books, 2018 Khadijah Queen, I’m So Fine: A List of FamousMen & What I Had OnPaperback, 96 pagesYesYes Books, 2017 Carmen Gimenez Smith, Cruel FuturesPaperback, 88 pagesCity Lights Spotlight No. 17City Lights Books, 2018 Recent poetry collections by Chelsey Minnis, Khadijah Queen, and Carmen Gimenez Smith rattle the bars of oppressive structures both seen and unseen. Each poet engages with male language, whether as her target or her medium, using it to build a feminist analysis of society’s patriarchal undergirding in stark clarity. Minnis’s latest, Baby I Don’t Care, performs this critique in the most literal fashion, collaging dialogue from Turner Classic Movies into mock centos in two stanzas of five lines each. Queen’s I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What…
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