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Corey Mesler
Deep roots and a soaring crown-this is the arc of Corey Mesler's poetry.
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The World is Neither Stacked for Nor Against You is a book of disparate parts, a sort of Frankenstein monster of a collection. And indeed, there is a monster story…
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With poems like Strictly Blowjob and The Cancer of Believing You’re in Control, acclaimed writer Corey Mesler has made a book that adjoins sex, love and social connection in their…
Camel Jeremy Eros, 60s Memphis poet, bon vivant and scenester, appeared in two earlier Corey Mesler novels. Now he gets his own biography. Beginning with his birth in Frayser, a…
Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People is filled with young, vibrant poems from a wise voice. The poems often wax reflective, filled with the historicity of experience, yet always…
Having just finished reading Corey Mesler’s As a Child, I can’t think of anything I’d rather do right now than start reading it all over again. The first time, I…
Robert Walker is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for…
If Alice had gone to a sketchy doctor in a sketchy part of town this might be the rabbit hole she went down. Charlie Cain went looking for a cure…
Fiction. Summoning all the wistfulness of Brautigan, Mesler has his narrator follow a ghostly hippie days of San Francisco.
Eric Warberg went to Hollywood to make it big. For many years, he was successful, until directing a few box office bombs made him virtually unemployable. When an opportunity presents…
Meet Neill Rhymer. Writer. Bookseller. Romantic. Or, maybe, Pervert; it could be tough to know the difference, those days. Follow Neill, his conquests, his loves and his losses, his catches…
Fiction. Music. DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY: A BEALE STREET SUITE is a crazy-quilt mosaic about a near-mythical place located, concretely, in Memphis, Tennessee, and abstractly somewhere on the road between Rapture and Perdition…
In a post-Trump world, Billy Kos, occasional poet, uneasy lover, and pot salesman, meets Kalma Voyles, a student and teacher. Billy believes she is the woman of his dreams, and…
Acclaimed writer Corey Mesler returns with his second full-length collection of poetry, this time exploring interior landscapes as they relate to life and love, feelings and family, the perpetual process…
Corey Mesler’s next full-length poetry collection explores the terrain of love and limitation, ranging over memory and mindfulness, always circling back to the resolution of writing. His craft is on…
