Flowers of Anti-Martyrdom

Dorian Geisler’s beguiling debut collection of poetry solves the problems of audacity?with audacity. A darkly uncanny romp through everyday life, Geisler’s understated poetry and minimalist aesthetic manages to convey a burgeoning, sprawling landscape featuring Main Street America in all its often-questionable Americanness.

Flowers of Anti-Martyrdom is Kafka mixed with Tarantino; it’s Invisible Cities?except instead of beautiful, imaginary cities, the poet introduces us to disconcertingly realistic humans in all their outlandish, casual perversity, exalted banality, and moral questionability.

Geisler holds the mirror up to contemporary America. The mirror stays placid as the images crack. Reader: be warned.