POEMS: now and then by Edric Mesmer

a note on the poems

These poems fall all too neatly into two sections, the eponymous “now” and “then.” I feel the “now” poems, all from the early months of 2020, share a returning-to with the “then” poems, some of which were written as long as 20 years ago. That they have come together so squarely—so circularly—(at least to me), speaks to a sympathy between then and now. I hope that the reader will also find this to be true. — Edric Mesmer, May 2020

Edric Mesmer lives in Buffalo, where he works as a cataloging librarian for the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo and edits the Among the Neighbors pamphlet series on little magazines. Previous publications include a monograph from Outriders Poetry Project (2015), chapbooks from Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs (2018), Destitute Press (2015), Red Glass Books (2014), PressBoardPress (2013), Seapressed/ meta (2011), and a miniature broadside from Veighsmere Press (2008). Further writings have appeared in periodicities, Galatea Resurrects, and Cordite. Edric is grateful to all of these small press publishers including Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX for the generous work they do for poetry and for community.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 70 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-370-6

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