Upper Rubber Boot Books

Corey Mesler

31 July 2014

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 Moores (2010), Following Richard Brautigan (2010), and Gardner Remembers (2011), three full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008), Before the Great Troubling (2011), and The Sky Needs More Work, and three books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011). He has also published 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. 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 coreymesler.wordpress.com.

 

Books for Upper Rubber Boot:

The Sky Needs More Work: poems by Corey Mesler, released 31 July 2014.

ISBN 978-1-937794-72-9 (print) is available for order at bookstores through the distributor Ingram, and at Amazon. Signed/inscribed copies can be ordered from the author’s bookstore here. ISBN 978-1-937794-42-2 (epub) is available for iPad, Nook, etc. at Barnes & Noble (USA), Chapters Indigo (Canada), Kobo (USA) and Weightless (worldwide; US currency). ISBN 978-1-937794-40-8 (mobi) is available for Kindle on Amazon (AU, BR, CA, DE, ES, FR, IN, IT, JP, MX, UK, USA) and Weightless (worldwide; US currency). ISBN 978-1-937794-41-5 (pdf) is available at Smashwords.

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.”

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