Beautiful Graveyards

Poetry. Author of four novels, it was said of his first book of poetry, Paper Thin, " "Rob Geisen is a man of vivid contradictions - big, and delicate; vivid, and delicate; vulgar, and delicate. He plays these variations very well: a Sonny Rollins in Penny Lane. He's a surreal story-teller, a surreal (verbal) lover; at the end you've got a story and you've got love. And the "yr nipples" series alone (rated, respectively, G, PG, PG13, R, NC-17) is worth the price of emission. Get Paper Thin" -Jack Collom. "Rob Geisen's poems are written from a one-two sensibility of simple animal lusts and smart human double-takes. These get together in a mischievously understated discursive line to spawn elated images which then take over as the poems' weird, sensual dream-children. Because of their mastery of these features, these are poems of an unusually immediate enjoyable accessibility" -Reed Bye. "...with incredible subtlety & humor Geisen is likely to capture the hearts of thousands of teenagers yo