Author Description

"Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman's poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once... always a pleasure."" -Lawrence Raab, author of April at the Ruins "Heinzelman's poems consistently possess the qualities of music and intelligence." -Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics, author of To Explain the World "Heinzelman creates a poetry of place with an unerring eye and ear for the ways that landscape can be mapped in the twists and turns of language." -Michael Davidson, author of Ghostlier Demarcations "These poems travel; each 'road spills / its cargo of hooks.' What a thrill to discover this etymology of place, of self." -Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, author of The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry "Kurt Heinzelman writes a restless, free-ranging poetry, rarely repeating a form or approach... ballads, Pindaric odes, sonnets, ekphrastic poems, short lyrics, one-sentence poems, and long, elastic sequences, all handled with remarkable skill and ease." -Brian Barker, author of The Black Ocean and Vanishing Acts