Tom Jake Gretchen Meadow, by Corey Mesler

Prose, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Tom Jake Gretchen Meadow is a prose-poem love story set inside a fairy tale, or a fairy tale set inside a love story. There are lovers. There is an antagonist. There is sympathetic magic. Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Lunch Ticket, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 50 books of fiction and poetry. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.