Unabated, Stripped Down and Real: Poemland by Chelsey Minnis

April is poetry month. Combined all the seasonal flowery imagery of life in bloom, rain and sunshine, bunnies and softly singing birds, have been numerous events, publications, gatherings, readings, slams, and (ugh) iambic pentameter

How do you cut through all that fluff?

Write a book that has no cover picture, no acknowledgments, no titles and no (grammatical) punctuation. Sparing all the fine ornamentation of the old, the dead, and the rhyming, Chelsey Minnis has written Poemland, a book that makes no argument for anything or against anything. It's poetry, and that's it.