Pollen Salt & Chimes

<p>Rich and inventive Kurt Heinzelman's poems are funny serious and everything in between often all at once ... always a pleasure.</p><p>-Lawrence Raab author of April at the Ruins</p><p></p><p>Heinzelman's poems consistently possess the qualities of music and intelligence.</p><p>-Steven Weinberg Nobel Laureate in Physics author of To Explain the World</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>-Michael Davidson author of Ghostlier Demarcations</p><p></p><p>These poems travel; each 'road spills / its cargo of hooks.' What a thrill to discover this etymology of place of self.</p><p>-Susan B. A. Somers-Willett author of The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>-Brian Barker author of The Black Ocean and Vanishing Acts</p>