Poetry. "Sharon Mesmer's poetry is a stream of indomitable 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 inhabit other bodies, opens their mouths and makes them speak. This book is funny and reflects a new kind of poetry consciousness"--Alice Notley. "Her first full collection of poetry is a lively readable volume, always interesting, beautifully bold and vivaciously modern"--Allen Ginsberg.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Sharon Mesmer is the author of ANNOYING DIABETIC BITCH (Combo Books, 2008), THE VIRGIN FORMICA (Hanging Loose, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (Belladonna Books, 2006), HALF ANGEL, HALF LUNCH (Hard Press, 1998), and Crossing Second Avenue (ABJ Books, Japan, 1997). Her prose collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, France, in French translation, 2005) and IN ORDINARY TIME and THE EMPTY QUARTER (Hanging Loose Press, 2005 and 2000). Lonely Tylenol, an art book in collaboration with the painter David Humphrey, was published in 2003 by Flying Horse Editions/University of Central Florida. She is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry.