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Books by Corey Mesler






Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2015 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-329-07596-2, ISBN: 1-329-07596-X

"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 returning to the now. Thus, Mesler's collection is defined by beautiful immediacy, intimacy, and urgency. Constantly, these poems remind the reader what it means to be human, to be alive and living surrounded by a multitude of beating hearts and breathing ..."






Memphis Movie
A Novel
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-614-6, ISBN: 1-59376-614-9

"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 itself for a return to his hometown of Memphis, to direct a small, independent film, it is a return to his roots in more ways than one. Despite the fact that he’s greeted like a star, his homecoming is bittersweet. The novel begins on the onset of filming ..."






Robert Walker
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2016 by Livingston Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-60489-172-0, ISBN: 1-60489-172-6

"Fiction. 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 him is life. Eventually, in opposition to his dedication to desired anonymity, he is forced to rejoin the world. The novel follows two crucial days in his journey while he traverses Memphis, encountering the familiar, the foreign, the desolate, and the joyous."






Following Richard Brautigan(1st Edition)
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Livingston Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60489-047-1, ISBN: 1-60489-047-9

"Following Richard Brautigan concerns a young writer of bad poetry living in Oklahoma City in the late 80s, who is visited by the ghost of the hippie writer Richard Brautigan. Jack, when the visitation occurs, is recovering from an aborted love affair, which coincidentally happened in San Francisco. That city becomes the focal point of the story, the place where magic can happen, a place seemingly out of time and between-worlds. The no ..."






Talk
A Novel in Dialogue
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Livingston Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-942979-86-2, ISBN: 0-942979-86-9

"The novel TALK is nouveau sexy, nouveau comic, nouveau chic, nouveau neurashthenic--it's just plain nouveau nouveau as we follow Jim, sesquipedalian owner of a fashionable bookstore who's undergoing just a wee bit of a mid-age crisis. . . ."






We Are Billion Year Old Carbon(1st Edition)
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2006 by Livingston Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931982-62-7, ISBN: 1-931982-62-7

"Fiction. So, you know the 60's? Mesler's collage of stories, poems, and "music reviews" will carry you through the entire rollicking and devastating gamut, using the microcosm of Memphis, city of the blues--and city where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. A novel? A would-be memoir? A how-to book on voodoo, Memphis style? Mesler presents us with all of these, and sings a paean over the loss of innocence that blasted through Amer ..."






The Sky Needs More Work
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2014 by Upper Rubber Boot Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-937794-72-9, ISBN: 1-937794-72-5

"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 many manifestations, from meditations on The Beatles, death, pharmacology, and infidelity, to “the holycow feeling/of just being human and/satisfied like a goddamn poem.”"






Before the Great Troubling(1st Edition)
Poems
by Corey Mesler, Rebecca Tickle
Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 2011 by Unbound Content, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-936373-15-4, ISBN: 1-936373-15-7

"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 of growing up."






Madstones
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2018 by Blazevox [Books]
ISBN-13: 978-1-60964-323-2, ISBN: 1-60964-323-2

"“These poems-- at times dark and troubling, at other times passionate and openhearted--are the work of a very talented poet. Madstones is a book worthy of a smart and attentive audience.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall "Corey Mesler's poems are like strange and wonderful little paintings, maybe what you would get if you crossed Hieronymous Bosch and Picasso." —Juanita Brunk, author of Brief Landing on the Earth’ ..."






As a Child
(Paperback or Softback)
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2014 by Madhat Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-941196-07-6, ISBN: 1-941196-07-1

"These are stories filled with wit and surprise, with heart-busting sadness and romping joy." -Josephine Humphreys "Corey Mesler has unhinged my brain and filled it with words so artfully arranged that they make me want to weep."






Notes Toward The Story and other stories
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, Published 2013 by Kuboa
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-81040-9, ISBN: 0-615-81040-3






A Dream in the Clouds(1st Edition)
by Mark Brazaitis, Barbara Crooker, Grace Atuhaire, Paul Hostovsky, Ben Humphrey, Allison Joseph, Susanna Lang, Mary Leary, Christopher Leland, Lyn Lifshin, Louis Phillips, H. E. Mantel, Corey Mesler, Bennett Paris, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, Noel Sloboda, Johanna Wald, Stephen Scott Whitaker, Eric G. Müller, Nancie King Mertz
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2010 by Bobo Strategy
ISBN-13: 978-0-9819881-9-1, ISBN: 0-9819881-9-9

"A politically-neutral collection of poetry, prose, and art inspired by the 2008 United States Presidential Election. Contributions from a Grammy award nominee, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship winner, Pushcart award nominees and winners, writers from various continents, university professors, professional artists, and some amateurs too."






The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores
A Novel of Sex and Murder
by Corey Mesler, William Eggleston
Paperback, 197 Pages, Published 2010 by Bronx River Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9789847-1-7, ISBN: 0-9789847-1-4

"Fiction. THE BALLAD OF THE TWO TOM MORES is set in the fictional Queneau, Arkansas. Restaurant reviewer Tom More is living the good life, small town style. He is a cad, a rural Romeo. But his sense of self is abruptly shaken when another man with the same name moves into town. Meanwhile, as the inhabitants of this countrified Peyton Place are lustily carrying on, there is another darker energy at work. Somebody is bumping off the male i ..."






Grit(1st Edition)
by Corey Mesler, Editor-Laura Wackerly
Paperback, 29 Pages, Published 2009 by Amsterdam Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9822221-1-9, ISBN: 0-9822221-1-4






The Agoraphobe's Pandiculations(1st Edition)
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2008 by Lulu.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4116-8458-4, ISBN: 1-4116-8458-3

"Corey Mesler. The Agoraphobe's Pandiculations Consider: It's like I'm in the Mafia or I'm Something Let Out Which Shouldn't Have Been. Around every corner something hunts me: friends, it's Ancient Anger. And though it is mine and only mine I do not recognize it. Every time it sneaks up on me, a little death. The Agoraphobe's Panic Attack A horror in the bowels, this. COREY MESLER | 10 THE AGORAPHOBE'S PANDICULATIONS The Agoraphobe' ..."






THE HOLE IN SLEEP
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2006 by Wood Works, Seattle
ISBN-13: 978-1-890654-43-6, ISBN: 1-890654-43-4

"poems about the visitations and torments that can come in the night"






Diddy Wah Diddy(1st Edition)
A Beale Street Suite
by Corey Mesler
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2013 by Ampersand Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9887328-5-8, ISBN: 0-9887328-5-8

"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. The novel is a-historic, preferring the beautiful lie to the truth as plain as a mud fence. The novel, if we can call it a novel (and we can), is peopled with musicians, conmen, strippers, magi, foreigners, storytellers, g ..."






Marriage Lifespan Vol. 6
by Alex Reece Abbott, Sara Abend-Sims, Amanda Addison, Tobi Alfier, Hedva Anbar, Kristine Rae Anderson, Andrea Marcusa, Richard Band, Linda Barrett, James Bates, Paul Beckman, Dev Berger, Annie Bien, Joyce Bingham, Natalie Blake, Mark Blickley, Michele Bombardier, Howard Brown, William Butler, Susan Maxwell Campbell, Hillary Campos, Rachel Canwell, Robin Cantwell, John Carnegie, William Cass, Con Chapman, Chuka Susan Chesney, Jan Chronister, Susy Churchill, Dave Clark, Peter Clarke, Christine Collinson, Lisa Costa, Linda M. Crate, Brenda Cullen, Steve Cushman, Tony Daly, Tony Dawson, Dawn Debraal, Albert Degenova, Winston Derden, Daniel Dioguardi, Michael Durack, Steve Evans, Kate Falvey, J. A. Rose, Wendy Freborg, Natalie Fry, Leone Gabrielle, Jeremy Gadd, Arthur Gardiner, Gauthier-Georgakopoulos Delphine, Declan Geraghty, Nod Ghosh, Alejo Rovira Goldner, Rab Green, John Riley, Ben Groner Iii, Jan Haag, Tom Hazuka, Ronald T. Hardwick, Mark Heathcote, Jenna Heller, Jack Henry, Matthew Hisbent, Keith Hoerner, Ryn Holmes, Mark Hudson, Barbara Schilling Hurwitz, G. P. Hyde, Abha Iyengar, Kendra Jackson, Joanne Jagoda, Caroline Jenner, Kenneth M. Kapp, Alan Kennedy, Steven Dee Kish, Pam Knapp, Jacqueline Kudler, Len Kuntz, John Laue, Neil Laurenson, Christine Law, Tim Law, Larry Lefkowitz, Joan Leotta, Cynthia Leslie-Bole, Louella Lester, Raquel Levitt, Mike Lewis-Beck, Ann Liska, Lindaann Loschiavo, Lance Mannion, Jayne Marek, Jackie Davis Martin, Fabiana Elisa Martínez, John Maskey, Sarah Masters, Glyn Matthews, Joy Mawby, Joan Mazza, Jan Mccarthy, Pat Murphy Mcclelland, Trisha Ridinger Mckee, Rob Mckinnon, Mandy Toczek Mcpeake, Deborah Meltvedt, Todd Mercer, Karla Linn Merrifield, Marianne Mersereau, Corey Mesler, Marda Messick, Neila Mezynski, T. C. Mill, Kathy Miller, Karuna Mistry, Marsha Mittman, Jennifer Moon, Ray Morrison, Bruce Morton, Colleen Moyne, Remngton Murphy, A. R. Neal, James B. Nicola, Edward O'dwyer, Louise L. Pace, Carl 'Papa' Palmer, Gary Percesepe, Debbie Peters, Jonathan Pett, Sylvia Petter, Emma Phillips, Ben Pitts, Margaret Plaganis, Diana Raab, Christina M. Rau, Lisa Reynolds, Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich, Sharon Rockman, Biman Roy, Merryn Ruttledge, Ed Ruzicka, Angeline Schellenberg, Arlene Schindler, Claire Schön, Robert Scotellaro, Phyliss Merion Shanken, Judith Shapiro, Pegi Deitz Shea, Josh Sherman, Shoshauna Shy, Joan Seliger Sidney, Beate Sigriddaughter, Cheryl Snell, Amy Soricelli, Emily Stanford, Elizabeth Stanley, Adrienne Stevenson, Evelyn Fletcher Symes, Lynn Tait, Eileen Trauth, Lydia Trethewey, Peggy Trojan, Lucy Tyrrell, Dianalee Velie, Pri Victor, Lois Perch Villemaire, Kenneth Wagner, Tony Warner, Kresha Richman Warnock, Michael Webb, Rachel Weld, Brian Weston, Nan Wigington, Allan J. Wills, Rita Wilson, Riley Winchester, Julianne Woodside, Anne Harding Woodworth, Larry Wright, Changming Yuan, Gary Zenker
Published 2022 by Pure Slush Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-922427-30-4, ISBN: 1-922427-30-6

"A collection of short stories, poetry and prose exploring marriage."






The Beautifullest Pure Slush 17
by Alex Reece Abbott, Tobi Alfier, Meryl Baer, Linda Barrett, Gary Beck, Paul Beckman, Claudia Bierschenk, Lisa Birch, John Bost, Howard Brown, Taylor John Bruck, William Butler, Rowena Cadney, Steve Carr, Kate Cheka, Chuka Susan Chesney, Jan Chronister, Sharon J. Clark, Darrell Coggins, Grace Coleman, Peter Collins, Carolyn Cordon, Judy Darley, Mary Daurio, Annie Dawid, Ruth Z. Deming, Steven Deutsch, Katrina Dybzynska, Susan Earlam, Michael Estabrook, Gloria Frym, Janice S. Fuller, Ken Gosse, Andrew Grenfell, John Grey, Chris Hall, Polly Hall, Sarah Henry, Jenna Hillhouse, Jo Hocking, Shaheen Hussain, Holly Jane, Tim Jarvis, Sarah Jane Justice, Susan Doble Kaluza, John Kojak, Ron. Lavalette, Larry Lefkowitz, Shaun Levin, Aurora M. Lewis, Mike Lewis-Beck, Jessica Liebelt, Paul Luikart, Henry Maddicott, Abigail Mathi-Amorim, Jan Mccarthy, Nessa Mercieca, Karla Linn Merrifield, Corey Mesler, Christopher Moore, Paul Morris, Wilda Morris, Colleen Moyne, Shirley Muir, Remngton Murphy, Robert Nelis, Jane Noel, Edward O'dwyer, Kate Owen, Carl 'Papa' Palmer, Edward Andrew Parks, Gary Percesepe, Patrick Pink, Bethany W. Pope, Alex Robertson, Trinity Robinson, Gerard Sarnat, Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri, Kate Shaw, William L. Spencer, Bobbi Thomson, Lydia Trewethey, Lucy Tyrrell, Patricia Unsworth, Allan J. Wills, Susie Wilson, Connie Woodring, Michael Wynne, Mantz Yorke
Published 2020 by Pure Slush Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-925536-23-2, ISBN: 1-925536-23-8






The Tense Past
by Corey Mesler, Flutter Press
Paperback, 33 Pages, Published 2018 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-79273-864-7, ISBN: 1-79273-864-1

"Corey Mesler states "The Tense Past are poems that speak about that sometimes heavy tail we all pull around, the one that represents people who don't love us anymore, people we don't love anymore, times and places that now seem like a dark painting revealed through the cracked pentimento of the present.""



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