Madstones by Corey Mesler
“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
“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
“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
“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’s Surface
COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published nine novels, four short story collections, and five full-length poetry collections, and a dozen chapbooks. His novel, Memphis Movie, attracted kind words from Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, and William Hjorstberg, among others. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart many times, and three of his poems were chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs a 143 year-old bookstore in Memphis. He can be found at https://coreymesler.wordpress.com.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 104 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-323-2