Flowers of Anti-Martyrdom

By Dorian Geisler

Book Overview

Dorian Geisler's beguiling debut collection of poetry solves the problems of audacity--with audacity. A darkly uncanny romp through the lives of others, Geisler's fast-moving poetry and understated/maximalist aesthetic manage to convey a burgeoning world filled with strangers whose identities are playfully--sometimes diabolically--half-revealed.

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.

With Flowers, Geisler has written a collection that's open to as many readings as there are readers--and yet that's always a genuine, unambiguous delight.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944211276
• ISBN13: 9781944211271
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.3"