Pollen, Salt, & Chimes

"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