Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place

GREETINGS FROM MY GIRLIE LEISURE PLACE is Sharon Mesmer's fifth collection of "tough and lush" poetry. Unwaveringly energetic and relentlessly wry, Mesmer fashions poems from the flashiest trash of the American sensibility and the Internet's muckiest dumping grounds, with a swagger and intelligence all her own. Hers is a generous spirit: "I want to expose myself," confesses one piece, "for love of the people." * With great wit, the poetry of Sharon Mesmer plunders the new realism of...
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GREETINGS FROM MY GIRLIE LEISURE PLACE is Sharon Mesmer's fifth collection of "tough and lush" poetry. Unwaveringly energetic and relentlessly wry, Mesmer fashions poems from the flashiest trash of the American sensibility and the Internet's muckiest dumping grounds, with a swagger and intelligence all her own. Hers is a generous spirit: "I want to expose myself," confesses one piece, "for love of the people." * With great wit, the poetry of Sharon Mesmer plunders the new realism of digital space, with its wishes, lies, and "ever-shifting Brangelina alerts." Her introductory poem, written in the voice of a beginning fantasy novel writer, announces, "I'd like to see / a ninja zombie pirate robot wizard / that is made of some kind of meat. / Preferably bacon." A shrewd satire on poetics, "This Poet" consists entirely of questions that might have been asked an overzealous workshop director: "How does this poet reveal her basic nature, / her mortal wound? / Is it through her choice of Dog?" Profane and delirious, this is the Divine Comedy of our postmodern Eden. --Paul Hoover