This one's long over due. Sharon Mesmer's poetry is a stream of indomitables spunk, it's tough and lush, polysyllabic and right off the streets of Chicago and New York. She creates a fabulous tissue of language which floats out to a inhabit other bodies, opens thier mouths and makes them speak. This book is funny and reflects a new kind of poetry consciousness. Alice Notley.
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"Mesmer puts sex back into poetry. Her work has so much erotic tension that even her surrealistic images make perfect sense." -- Hal Sirkowitz
"This ones long overdue. Sharon Mesmers poetry is a stream of indomitable spunk, its tough and lush, polysyllabic..." -- Alice Notley
"This ones long overdue. Sharon Mesmers poetry is a stream of indomitable spunk, its tough and lush, polysyllabic..." -- Alice Notley
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Sharon Mesmer was born in Back-of-the-Yards, a Chicago neighborhood named for its proximity to the Union Stockyards. In the '80's she was active in that city's literary scene, co-founding and -editing the publications B CITY and LETTER EX In 1981 she published her first chapbook, JAYNE MANSFIELD'S HEAD. Since making New York her home in 1988, she received a MacArthur Scholarship from Brooklyn College (by recommendation of Allen Ginsberg), and was a featured performer in "Words In Your Face," the 1991 season premiere of the PBS series "Alive From Off Center." A second chapbook, CROSSING SECOND AVENUE, was published in Japan in 1997, coinciding with her reading tour of three cities there. During two residencies at the MacDowell Colony and one at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, she completed her first novel, FLY. In 1998 she collaborated with Prix de Rome-winning composer Barbara Kolb on a libretto for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's festival honoring th! e 900th birthday of Hildegarde von Bingen. Currently, she teaches fiction writing and literature at the New School in Manhattan, is a member of the miscreant collective Unbearables, and is English language editor of the Japanese literary magazine AMERICAN BOOK JAM
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