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Before the Great Troubling: Poems
by
Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author),
Rebecca Tickle
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.
Paperback, 118 pages
Published
April 11th 2011
by Unbound Content, LLC
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For Before the Great Troubling (Unbound Content, 2011):
"I recently read Before the Great Troubling and was totally enthralled with it from start to finish. Can understand how "Sortilege" got the Pushcart nomination, but for my money it's not even the best poem in the book, although it's certainly a lovely study in understatement and careful use of words.
Now, "God," and on the next page "Recent Developments in Home Schooling" and "Watching Things from a Distance," those are unspeakably perfect...more
"I recently read Before the Great Troubling and was totally enthralled with it from start to finish. Can understand how "Sortilege" got the Pushcart nomination, but for my money it's not even the best poem in the book, although it's certainly a lovely study in understatement and careful use of words.
Now, "God," and on the next page "Recent Developments in Home Schooling" and "Watching Things from a Distance," those are unspeakably perfect...more
For Before the Great Troubling (Unbound Content, 2011):
“Corey Mesler is a Memphis treasure— a gaudily gifted poet-fabulist, he’s our master of the surreal lyric, our River City Rimbaud, the Charles Simic of the Southland. His poems have wit and soul and refuse to play by any rules save their own. Open the pages of Before the Great Troubling and this wily book will lie, cheat, and steal its way into the pocketbook of your affections.”
--Bobby Rogers, author of Paper Anniversary
“These deceptively...more
“Corey Mesler is a Memphis treasure— a gaudily gifted poet-fabulist, he’s our master of the surreal lyric, our River City Rimbaud, the Charles Simic of the Southland. His poems have wit and soul and refuse to play by any rules save their own. Open the pages of Before the Great Troubling and this wily book will lie, cheat, and steal its way into the pocketbook of your affections.”
--Bobby Rogers, author of Paper Anniversary
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COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) Following Richard Brautigan (2010), and Gardner Remembers (2011), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 3 books of short sto...more
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