"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 CoreyMesler 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 CoreyMesler 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 CoreyMesler 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 CoreyMesler 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. . . ."
"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 CoreyMesler 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.”"
"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 CoreyMesler 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 CoreyMesler 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."
"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."
"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 CoreyMesler, Editor-Laura Wackerly Paperback, 29 Pages, Published 2009 by Amsterdam Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9822221-1-9, ISBN: 0-9822221-1-4
"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 CoreyMesler 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 CoreyMesler 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 ..."
The Tense Past by CoreyMesler, 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.""