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  <name><![CDATA[Corey Mesler]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). His first full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), is out from Foothills Publishing and his book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, appeared in March 2009. He also has two novels set to be published in the next year. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He has two children, Toby, age 20, and Chloe, age 13. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He also claims to have written “In the Year 2525.” He can be found at www.coreymesler.com. 

]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Raymond Carver, James Tate, Frank O'Hara, Donald Barthelme, Steve Stern, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Dick Van Dyke, The Beatles, Laurence Sterne. ]]></influences>    <hometown>Niagara Falls NY</hometown>  <born_at>07/20/1955</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Memphis]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hole in Sleep]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Listen: 29 Short Conversations]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[We Are Billion Year-Old Carbon: A Tribal-Love-Rock-Novel Set in The Sixties on an Outpost Planet Called Memphis]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Some Identity Problems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Grit]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Chloe Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Talk: A Novel in Dialogue]]></title>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Publisher]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pictures from Lang and Fellini]]></title>
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