Some Identity Problems

by Corey Mesler

85 pages, Perfect Bound / Stitched

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Esquire/Narrative4 Project and Good Poems, American Places (Viking Press, 2011). He has published 9 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), Gardner Remembers (2011), Frank Comma and the Time-Slip (2012), Diddy-Wah-Diddy: A Beale Street Suite (2013), Memphis Movie (2015), Robert Walker (2016); 5 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008), Before the Great Troubling (2011), Our Locust Years (2013), The Catastrophe of my Personality (2014), The Sky Needs More Work (2014); and 4 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011), I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011), and As a Child (2015). He has also published over a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. His fiction has received praise from John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Lee Smith, Frederick Barthelme, Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, Steve Yarbrough, Greil Marcus, among others. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.wordpress.com.

Reviews

[Corey · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Corey Mesler's poems are the antithesis of what drives people away from poetry. They are easy reads, understandable and beautiful in their simplicity, yet full of imagery and depth. One rarely comes away from a one-page poem without a better understanding of life or its intricacies -- and with that ‘wow’ feeling. You get to know Corey through his poems because he, and his work, are the real thing.”
--Harry Calhoun, author of Failure is Unimportant

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

No one writes about males like Mesler does; males and females, males and writing, males and their relationships with their children and God and even themselves. Mesler just knows dudes. Mesler also knows Mesler and his writing is all the better for it.

[Burke's Bookstore Book · Rating 5 out of 5]

“No one writes about males like Mesler does; males and females, males and writing, males and their relationships with their children and God and even themselves. Mesler just knows dudes, and…Mesler knows Mesler and his writing is all the better for it.”
--Ben Tanzer, author of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine