Poetry. Sharon Mesmer is not only provocative, but also confrontational in her new book of poems, ANNOYING DIABETIC BITCH. The namesake poem appears first in the book and screams curses and prideful incantations regarding the diabetic condition at its audience. The book is divided into eight sections riddled with shocking images like a little white boy shooting "a rather alarming streak of pee into the nose of Jesus" while one poem asks the question "Who Put the Frog in Grandma's Shit?" With an imagination driven by a raw and bestial point of view, Mesmer aggressively takes her reader into a world in which the laws of conduct do not apply, and the reader is all the more pleased with their findings. Sharon Mesmer is "always interesting, beautifully bold and vivaciously modern"—Allen Ginsberg.

Annoying Diabetic Bitch

Literature & Fiction

Mesmer, Sharon

Poetry

Combo Books

Sensitive Skin Number 10 features out-takes from his "Wall Street" collection by famed photographer Charles Gatewood ("Sidetripping," "Forbidden Photographs"), fiction by Gary Indiana ("Scar Tissue and Other Stories," "White Trash," "Horse Crazy," "Gone Tomorrow"), Max Blagg ("Ticket Out"), Drew Hubner ("East of Bowery"), Patrick O'Neil ("The Hold-Up"), E. A. Fow, Tony DuShane ("Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk") and Raul Serrano Sanchez ("Catálogo de ilusiones"), poetry by Flarf pioneer Sharon Mesmer ("Annoying Diabetic Bitch," "The Virgin Formica"), Ron Kolm ("Divine Comedy"), Pete Simonelli ("Night Sees You First," "A Lonely War") and Michael Randall, essays by James Reich ("Bombshell," "I, Judas"), Ronald B. Richardson ("Narrative Madness"), cinema of transgression co-founder Nick Zedd and Breyten Breytenback ("The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist"), paintings by Peter Shear, and music by Steve Adams (ROVA Saxophone Quartet), with additional art, illustrations and photographs by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre ("The Ruins of Detroit"), Ruby Ray ("From the Edge of the World: California Punk, 1977-1981"), Chris Bava, Megan Baker, David West ("Music: Drawing Down the Muse"), Jeff Spirer, Charlie Homo, Ted Barron, Justine Frischmann, Julie Torres and Tom McGlynn.

Sensitive Skin Number 10

Randall, Michael

Zedd, Nick

Kolm, Ron

Sanchez, Raul Serrano

Breytenback, Breyten

Richardson, Ronald B.

Simonelli, Pete

Literary

Sensitive Skin Magazine

"Sharon Mesmer's poetry is a stream of indomitable spunk . . . tough and lush . . . a fabulous tissue of language which floats out to inhabit other bodies, opens their mouths and makes them speak." -Alice Notley  "Parodying the come-ons of capitalism, Mesmer surprises us with access to something we hadn't considered wanting, an arch anger that is surprisingly accepting of the compromises situations push on people, while at the same time smoldering with acidic resentment, as if Mesmer forgave the compromiser only to feel doubly incensed at the leveraged situations prodding us to inauthenticity." -Jacket, Stan Apps  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 spriti: "I want to expose myself," confesses one piece, "for love of the people."  Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her previous poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997). Her fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation by Daniel Bismuth, 2005), In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005), and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2005). She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of New York University and the New School. Originally from Chicago, she has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1988.

Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place

Bloof Books

The Empty Quarter

Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's first fiction collection follows the 1998 publication of her first book of poems, Half Angel, Half Lunch, which Allan Ginsberg called beautifully bold and vivaciously modern. Her work has appeared in such publications as New American Writing, Lingo, The World and Poets &amp; Writers. Sharon's poems sweep the reader up in suppositions of identity and purpose. Who are we and what's going on here, and couldn't we and it be more luxuriant, astute and sexy than anyone could possibly imagine. The poet is vulnerable (but definitely not wimpy) as she flexes her mind and body in words over (and through) matter to produce multiple revelations over and over again. -- Ed Friedman

Contemporary

Hanging Loose Press

Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's first fiction collection follows the 1998 publication of her first book of poems, Half Angel, Half Lunch, which Allan Ginsberg called beautifully bold and vivaciously modern. Her work has appeared in such publications as New American Writing, Lingo, The World and Poets & Writers. Sharon's poems sweep the reader up in suppositions of identity and purpose. Who are we and what's going on here, and couldn't we and it be more luxuriant, astute and sexy than anyone could possibly imagine. The poet is vulnerable (but definitely not wimpy) as she flexes her mind and body in words over (and through) matter to produce multiple revelations over and over again. -- Ed Friedman

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.

Half Angel, Half Lunch.

Arts & Photography

Hard Press Editions

Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's new collection of short fiction shows a depth of feeling that permeates every story. "Mesmer's evocative poetic language provies refreshingly clear images and clever turns of phrase" - Publisher's Weekly. "Mesmer's quick wit jolts through bitter, cacophonous territory, a classic roller-coaster ride" - American Book Review. Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's new collection of short fiction shows a depth of feeling that permeates every story. "Mesmer's evocative poetic language provies refreshingly clear images and clever turns of phrase" - Publisher's Weekly. "Mesmer's quick wit jolts through bitter, cacophonous territory, a classic roller-coaster ride" - American Book Review.

In Ordinary Time

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Annoying Diabetic Bitch

Sensitive Skin Number 10

Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place

The Empty Quarter

The Empty Quarter

Half Angel, Half Lunch.

In Ordinary Time